Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 2 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 3 | The great metabolic activity of insects during flight is indicated by their greatly increased oxygen consumption under these conditions ( e.g. Davis and Fraenkel , 1940 ) and as flight continues uninterruptedly for many hours in some species , a reserve of oxidizable material is required ( Sacktor , 5970 ) . |
| 4 | 1,453 were arrested and processed in mobile booking offices , mostly for petty offences like delinquent traffic tickets or curfew violations . |
| 5 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 6 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |
| 7 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) can be solved analytically for spherical impactors in an isothermal atmosphere if and C H are held constant . |
| 8 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 9 | Both arbitration and litigation have an independent existence beyond any specific application , because they can be used very widely for all kinds of dispute resolution . |
| 10 | The function of these forceful propulsive waves seems chiefly that of shifting a relatively large quantity of intraluminal content aborally for long distances within the colonic lumen , thereby determining a right-to-left gradient important for the initiation of defecation . |
| 11 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 12 | The directorate has a continual need for processed information to support decision making , to develop policy and advice for Academic Board and Governors , and to satisfy the appetite of external bodies such as DF.S , CNAA , NAB/PCFC , etc. for numerical information From time to time there is also the need for high quality information to support particular initiatives , such as the ( successful ) application for accreditation . |
| 13 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 14 | The Bank , however , hardly competed vigorously for private accounts before mid century . |
| 15 | They left with a strong commitment to share their experiences at home and to campaign even more vigorously for concrete action by the North American governments and churches . |
| 16 | the property was deposited by or on behalf of the guest expressly for safe custody with the proprietor or some servant of his authorised , or appearing to be authorised , for the purpose , and , if so required by the proprietor or that servant , in a container fastened or sealed by the depositor ; or |
| 17 | It voted overwhelmingly for continued membership of the USSR in the March 1991 referendum , and elected its own president . |
| 18 | In June Lithuanians had voted overwhelmingly for Russian troops to be withdrawn by the end of 1992 ; Latvia and Estonia had reportedly also made the same demand . |
| 19 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 20 | War was a recourse for Spaniards hoping eventually for radical solutions to Spain 's long term economic and political problems . " |
| 21 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 22 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 23 | Amendments to the Act have now abolished mandatory retirement altogether for most categories of workers . |
| 24 | It also questioned whether Rosyth could compete effectively for this business against firms in the Far East with their lower cost base and sites on the main tanker routes . |
| 25 | Typical examples of this are the inability to have biosensors that can operate effectively for any length of time in blood and the need for anticoagulants during extracorporeal procedures such as dialysis and heart-lung bypass operations . |
| 26 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 27 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 28 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 29 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 30 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |