Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram . |
| 32 | One small room shows a splendid set of Rubens sketches , of scenes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , done mostly for the King of Spain 's hunting-lodge . |
| 33 | Most of our panel do the job on a semi-voluntary basis , mostly for the love of the hobby , and out of concern for the welfare of fish in general . |
| 34 | Mostly for the cross both sides . |
| 35 | ENGLAND 's visit to Pakistan may well be remembered mostly for the umpiring . |
| 36 | ENGLAND 's visit to Pakistan may well be remembered mostly for the umpiring . |
| 37 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 38 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 39 | Notice that what is being passed on is partly pure risk — the chance that , despite the manager 's very best endeavours , things will go badly for the firm . |
| 40 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
| 41 | Trade unions were already suffering , and the implementation of the decision to return to the gold standard augured badly for the staple export industries . |
| 42 | Wynne-Jones 's knowledge of the woodland realm was far too useful for them simply to abandon him and race furiously for the north . |
| 43 | Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year . |
| 44 | What do you fear most for the future ? |
| 45 | This is not simply for the purpose of recouping capital costs , but more importantly for the purpose of generating huge profits for the private sector developers . |
| 46 | Importantly for the Unit , Bissell was a ‘ talker ’ . |
| 47 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 48 | But more importantly for the Republic of Cyprus , shaped by the late Archbishop Makarios , the conference will concentrate minds on the division of the island . |
| 49 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 50 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 51 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 52 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |
| 53 | We still do not know how to do the sum over histories properly for the universe , but we can be fairly sure that it will involve imaginary time and the idea of space-time closing up on itself . |
| 54 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 55 | CIRCULATION of documents apparently intended for board members and senior executives of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association has fuelled speculation that the professional game 's governing body has ‘ wasted the golden years of snooker and not planned properly for the future . ’ |
| 56 | OSF turned over $55m in 1992 , of which $28m came from sales of technology licences — predominantly for the Motif graphical user interface — the other $27m being the $4.5m a year membership dues paid by each of the six remaining founders , Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Hitachi Ltd , IBM Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Groupe Bull SA . |
| 57 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |
| 58 | Her work for the early suffrage campaigns also began in the mid-1870s , when she lectured widely for the cause in London , Manchester , Birmingham , and elsewhere . |
| 59 | It is always good advice to read widely for the sake of your historical knowledge and understanding but also for the improvement of written English . |
| 60 | After primary fermentation the beer is stored ( the German word is ‘ lagered ’ ) for a short time but rarely for the month or more that is standard abroad . |