Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 While 5.5mm is the most widely adopted diameter for arrows , it is by no means the only thickness .
2 This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon
3 The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards .
4 After a brief apology she said : ‘ Is it all right to allow credit for this , Miss Carne ? ’
5 Prince , she suggests , never leaves the recording studio long enough to have time for anything romantic like a candelit dinner or taking lady-friends to the movies .
6 The Christmas Crib appeal brings in much needed revenue for the work of the society , and Father Gannon asked for the continued support of clergy , schools and people of the diocese .
7 But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general .
8 Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average .
9 We 've only really got work for the the labourers in the form , even labourers are n't employed up to the ninth floor cos that work 's already been completed .
10 Many other institutes adopted a variety of the armed services funds as their mascot and held ‘ gift sales ’ , ‘ bring and buy ’ events and so on to raise money for their special fund .
11 A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years .
12 This not only unfairly impedes opportunity for the people concerned .
13 ‘ It would be difficult to imagine a less likely looking place for the continuation of the great trade route into Chinese Turkestan .
14 The journal apparently never made money for Crookes after all , but it kept his name before the public ; and being an editor does give some power , patronage and influence .
15 William Charles , the eldest son , had only recently left town for good , off to join his cousins in London ; young Benjamin was too young to be playing at soldiers , and Charles the Cheesemonger himself was a bit too old and certainly far too unhealthy to offer his services as a volunteer .
16 The national Church does not entirely escape responsibility for this situation ; within living memory the bishop of one major see let it be known that he would not be available to officiate at services on Good Friday since he had to start the boat race at his old school .
17 Unlike many other coral types , mechanical damage does not necessarily mean death for leather corals .
18 Certainly not enough to afford shelter for him to get nearer the hut .
19 How many Welsh coaches , for example , see their role as not only achieving success for their clubs but also furnishing players of quality for the new multiplicity of Welsh squads ?
20 For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits .
21 Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls .
22 It is known as the Appropriation Act because it not only grants approval for the total sums requested , but also prescribes how the overall sum is to be apportioned to particular votes in order to finance specified services .
23 The extent to which the desire for the products of industry , beyond necessities , results from the processes of want-creation as distinct from pre-existing materialistic tendencies is obscure , but there is some plausibility in Galbraith 's picture of a corporate system whose power includes an ability not only to stimulate demand for particular goods but also to shape prevailing social values .
24 At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly .
25 True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others .
26 The schedule , by asking for the residence to have ‘ the requirements of a Nobleman 's Town House ’ with twelve to fourteen bedrooms , a dining room to seat fifty , and a reception suite to accommodate 1,500 guests , was not only ensuring accommodation for official functions , but also attempting to perpetuate the traditional view of the Secretary of State as the embodiment of the Foreign Office ; a view which Hammond was systematically demolishing .
27 For example , contacting users ' families not only causes unpleasantness for the individual concerned but also damages the centres ' carefully nurtured congenial atmosphere .
28 The purpose of these laws was not only to provide guidance for the day-to-day running of the Israelite community , but to teach how a holy God was to be worshipped by a holy people .
29 The report noted that they not only provided care for children but enabled teachers to attend to others and also that the aides themselves carried out important educational work under the teacher 's direction .
30 The residence of the trustees does not generally have relevance for the purposes of stamp duty .
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