Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 2 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 3 | Contact lenses are less frequently prescribed for children than spectacles because physical growth is still taking place and because they are relatively more expensive . |
| 4 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
| 5 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 6 | ‘ Although we welcome the government 's recognition of the importance of the voluntary sector 's advice services , we are concerned about the lack of additional finance to extend the services in less well provided for areas , ’ explained Tim Attwood , director of CAB . |
| 7 | The minister believes these changes will provide a fairer distribution of grant money to less well provided for parts of the province . |
| 8 | The ANLT lexicon aims to provide consistency ( i.e. syntactic information is only explicitly provided for words that can not be derived from extant morphemes within the lexicon ) . |
| 9 | When polished it is also highly reflective and was thus widely used for mirrors . |
| 10 | In later chapters we shall prove several results of the above type where the symbols used will not necessarily stand for integers . |
| 11 | … the postmodernist decision that the Author is dead , and subjective agency along with him , does not necessarily work for women and prematurely forecloses the question of identity for them . |
| 12 | Ivy , who did not much care for books about ‘ Abroad ’ — though if you sent her one she would say politely that it would be ‘ a companion ’ — was pleased to have a novel set in England and in the past . |
| 13 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 14 | The APB is not only looking for comments on its proposed redefinition of the role and scope of audit . |
| 15 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
| 16 | These are not merely reading for children but they form part of a shared British culture . |
| 17 | Normally only used for foundations . |
| 18 | Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language . |
| 19 | Heavily leaded alloys were therefore not generally used for artefacts which required high mechanical strength . |
| 20 | With rare exceptions therefore ( the selection of fiction may be one ) librarians will not normally wait for reviews before selecting books . |
| 21 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 22 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 23 | Aveline , I 'm not even checking for figures there I 'm just looking through , just scanning through , erm I 'm I 'm , I have n't said how we 're gon na check these . |
| 24 | Whenever they reached an island that was likely to be visited by European sailors again , they would release a few pigs , to run wild , multiply and form a permanent supply of protein — on islands seemingly not well provisioned for humans . |
| 25 | Tickets will be on sale to gold members who have not yet applied for tickets , from 9am today . |
| 26 | these three are all very good defenders as mentioned in previous postings by me and all would have fitted fine at Leeds — but i feel that the jewel of the collection is Johnsen — he has speed and is extremely flexible — and he has not yet signed for Spurs — so he might still be in for a trial at Leeds . |
| 27 | Again there are several very competent programs available and they would certainly provide considerable advantages over manual systems But they are general purpose in their construction — ie. they were not specifically designed for personnel applications The main deficiency is that the reporting facilities ( iQ the way in which information can be presented ) do not generally go beyond well formatted listings with totals and subtotals In my view , more advanced numerical analyses are required , especially for factors such as wastage and sickness/absence . |
| 28 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 29 | Since the subjects in Study 2 did not expect a recognition phase it was clearly not sufficient to simply repeat the study without subjects making any judgments , instead judgment tasks had to be found that were not related to risk and were still sufficiently engaging for subjects not to suspect a memory test afterwards . |
| 30 | For example lindane , or gamma benzene hexachloride , is an insecticide found in a shampoo called Quellada Application PC — more often prescribed for scabies — and in Lorexane , which , although now withdrawn from the market , may still be held by some chemists . |