Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a Saturday night , the night that 's all right for late and mega-high for Sunday is a day of rest and you 've chosen to spend this Saturday night — let me not presume ! — evening , with me . |
| 2 | He says that th the communists have , have got have n't got the erm the reasons right for this and that they ne if they do n't get them right then they , they are going to , to , it will be bad for the revolution , they need |
| 3 | More recently , pelagic fleets of several nations have fished the Southern Ocean effectively for pelagic and demersal fish , squid and krill ; for overviews of their catches and potential see Grantham ( 1977 ) , Eddie ( 1977 ) , Everson ( 1977 ) and Knox ( 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Constanza was getting on for fourteen and everybody had forgotten about an heir . |
| 5 | He was getting on for seventy and had arthritis . |
| 6 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 7 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 8 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 9 | Someone , someone told me it 's on for three and a half hours ! |
| 10 | She was wise enough for that and so , I think , was Colonel Goreng . |
| 11 | The company believes there 's enough market for four operators , certainly enough for three and that two is not enough . |
| 12 | It is a fickle , too-short season and for much of this century the Soviet Union 's granaries have never been quite full enough for domestic and political comfort . |
| 13 | Thank you very much for that and er . |
| 14 | Many latifundia were , no doubt , ‘ abusive ’ ; but many were on poor land suited only for extensive and occasional cereal production and ranching . |
| 15 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 16 | Please Note : Collagen Ampoules are suitable only for dry and mature skin . |
| 17 | Recommendations for exemptions are made only for experienced and distinguished teachers of law who have established links with the profession . |
| 18 | I find it almost incredible that the men taking part in the tests were not monitored regularly throughout the rest of their lives , if only for scientific and not humanitarian reasons . |
| 19 | Employment agencies used to be only for domestic and office staff . |
| 20 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 21 | Once again , the Saturday 's play was washed out , but on Monday morning five wickets were down for 100 and , with Lloyd having badly pulled a hamstring while fielding , the follow-on definitely loomed . |
| 22 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |
| 23 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 24 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 25 | so I 'm going in for twelve and finish for eight |
| 26 | However , the damage was done at the discontinued line which simply reflects the fact that we had er , Elserver in for two and a half months in nineteen ninety one , as opposed to twelve months the year before . |
| 27 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 28 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 29 | As well as activities such as observing , measuring , drawing , describing or using the artefact , time needs to be programmed in for creative and imaginative responses — telling the tale of a battered Victorian penny , the hands it has passed through , the articles it has bought , for instance . |
| 30 | They go in for querulous and disputatious argument . |