Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 2 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 3 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 4 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 5 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 6 | Today , they are a half-forgotten group , long since disbanded , whose name only qualifies for a where-are-they-now status . |
| 7 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 8 | The two groups , representing Asian and North American communicators , pledge below to strive for a more just global communication environment . |
| 9 | We must rely , as heretofore , upon the social acumen of the judges ; but at the same time we are entitled perhaps to ask for a little more boldness in the formulation of principles . |
| 10 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 11 | The garden at Snowshill Manor is on a small enough scale for a totally organic approach to be feasible , but this is not the case with many of the Trust 's larger gardens where chemicals are still employed . |
| 12 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 13 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 14 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 15 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 16 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 18 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 19 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 20 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 21 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 22 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 23 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 24 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 25 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 26 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 27 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 28 | Some moves have been made to deregulate the private rented sector , but this still accounts for a relatively insignificant part of the housing stock . |
| 29 | You could hardly ask for a more exhilarating way to kick off the week 's traces . |
| 30 | The Green Paper also argued for a nationally agreed framework for the curriculum and also wanted the local authorities to coordinate the curriculum and its developments . |