Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 2 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 3 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 4 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 5 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 7 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 8 | If wide coverage is sought ( eg for a new Do-it-Yourself product or a new consumer banking service ) , then a television advertisement put out at a peak viewing time would be the most effective . |
| 9 | The Bournemouth International Centre is not really extensive or flexible enough for a modern Conservative Party Conference . |
| 10 | Their exports were not always spectacular but their industries produced enough for a growing domestic market . |
| 11 | ‘ Only for a tiny tiny second because then I 'm dashing off to work . ’ |
| 12 | Hick contributed a pleasant cameo , notable not only for a superb back-foot force through the covers but also for his continued struggles against the short ball , and a debatable lbw decision which ended his stay . |
| 13 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 14 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 15 | Past efforts have largely been concentrated on the study of experimental catchments but most studies are limited to analyses of effects on a single component of the hydrologic cycle , such as the effect of urbanization on flood peaks , or are relevant only for a particular geographical setting . |
| 16 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |
| 17 | obviously for a pre-shaped molecular key . |
| 18 | The Director paused and watched the scene below for a few thoughtful seconds , as a squad of house servants bagged and carried out the human remains , and began stripping off the blood-soaked canvas cover from the padded squares underneath , removing it for cleaning . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ said Cameron , wishing that James would think harder and spoil less for a mere sporting occasion . |
| 20 | A report on September 29 stated Graeme Souness deserted Liverpool FC and allowed his players to fly to Cyprus alone for a key European Cup match in order to accompany his girlfriend , Karen Levy , to her matrimonial court hearing . |
| 21 | Steve Harper , haulage contractor , stood outside alone for a grateful crisp smokeless moment of silence , and when they opened the door to him a strange shadow of the night sidled in with him from prehistory . |
| 22 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 23 | Though there is no real reason not to talk of ‘ the new novel ’ , the term nouveau roman has always been retained , perhaps for a certain alluring foreign frisson . |
| 24 | You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that . |
| 25 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 26 | For the pure components , , and as ΔS M , the change in entropy on mixing , is given by then we can write so for a two component mixture |
| 27 | For a circular rod of radius a the form factor F is the same as the moment of area and so for a free-free torsional resonant vibration and for a clamped-free resonance . |
| 28 | If you can swallow the unlikely nature of the killer 's powers , then you are in for a good rough ride down a murky road . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 30 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |