Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the Hollywood gloss and glitter was up front in the square where the lines formed and the buskers milked , but the alley was just a mean crack with high walls of featureless brick , somewhere to hide the trash cans and somewhere for the tramps to sleep . |
| 2 | These two guys are meant to be on a Gipsy Working Party , finding somewhere for the gipsies to live , and all they can do is argue about it . |
| 3 | The assumption is commonly made that the decisions to be taken in caring for such patients , the therapeutic strategy to be adopted , are wholly medical matters , and thus wholly for the doctors to make , with or without discussion with the patient . |
| 4 | The snails will eat the foam , presumably for the microflora living on it , or perhaps by mistake . |
| 5 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 6 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 7 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 8 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 9 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 10 | I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something . |
| 11 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 12 | But I think that er this er Centenary Sports Ground gon na be large enough for the public to see and this and wants to be on a smaller metal er edition that 's there for er ever and a day . |
| 13 | He mumbled words and phrases from the song quietly enough for the noise to drown them until a man returned to his side and stopped . |
| 14 | After a spate of database crashes , and suffering the frustrating and time-consuming business of repeatedly reconstructing files and indexes , I was forced to consider that the mains supply to this particular computer was simply not clean enough for the computer to use . |
| 15 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 16 | If this makes them pause , even briefly , it may be just enough for the prey to escape . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it meant that there was n't enough for the consultant to do to keep him out of her way , and every time she turned round she almost fell over him . |
| 18 | This decision , coupled with Bank of Montreal v. Stuart [ 1911 ] A.C. 120 appears to apply an equitable principle that , in circumstances of influence or likely influence of the debtor husband over the surety wife , it is not enough for the creditor to show that the surety understood the import of the security document ; the surety must , in addition , have independent legal advice . |
| 19 | While the areas of sky and water dried with two wings of the picture , the banks with trees and spire were put in dark enough for the water to clean light against them . |
| 20 | The objective of the RFX experiment , a collaborative project between Italy and Britain that is to be built in Italy at Padua , is to find out directly whether the RFP can confine high-temperature plasma well enough for the configuration to form the basis of a reactor . |
| 21 | It is not enough for the Minister to pass the buck to the chief inspector of constabulary . |
| 22 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 23 | The House of Lords disagreed and it is now the law that it may be enough for the transaction to contain an element of bounty if it is of the kind conferred by the exercise of a special power of appointment . |
| 24 | ( d ) Do n't wave the cards about ; hold the card steadily in front of the class long enough for the students to grasp what situation you are trying to present . |
| 25 | On seven occasions last year , the batsmen made first-innings totals of less than 300 but did just enough for the seamers to win the matches . |
| 26 | ‘ Dalziel , ’ he murmured audibly enough for the fruit machine victims to glance his way , ‘ is not bloody well going to get it . ’ |
| 27 | The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way . |
| 28 | ‘ Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away , ’ the father said , grinning . |
| 29 | Evans listed 135 hieroglyphic signs ; although the total is actually rather greater than this , there are still not enough for the system to have been a purely ideographic one , with one sign for each idea . |
| 30 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |