Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 2 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 3 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 4 | Since then it had gone very badly for the small Halfling regiment . |
| 5 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 8 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 9 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 10 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 11 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 12 | In particular , those programmes do little for the two lowest income deciles of the population . |
| 13 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 14 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 15 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 18 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 19 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
| 20 | Carry on for a further third of a mile , then take the signed bridleway on the left . |
| 21 | After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen . |
| 22 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 25 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 26 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 27 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 28 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 29 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |
| 30 | So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet . |