Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 2 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 3 | 1.40 What adds additional force to this argument is that under the Rules of the Supreme Court writs can be renewed only for a good or sufficient reason ( see Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Barbrak Ltd , " The Myrto " ( No 3 ) [ 1987 ] AC 597 ) . |
| 4 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 5 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 6 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 7 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 8 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 9 | We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East , and our two movements complement each other . ’ |
| 10 | The board of inquiry called yesterday for a full and open judicial inquiry into the alleged activities of the death squad , noting that the present McNally investigation was an inter-departmental inquiry behind closed doors . |
| 11 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 12 | Long after the profiteroles had been sauced , tables were moved deftly aside for a short but gripping , and sometimes funny , obedience display by one man , one woman and both their dogs before the breeds came out and strutted for their admirers . |
| 13 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 14 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 15 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 16 | Your old man here has brought me all the way up here for a complete and utter waste of time |
| 17 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 18 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 19 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 20 | The peninsula is peaceful and pretty now , and many go there for a gentle but gastronomic tour . |
| 21 | I say ‘ called ’ because English Law does not recognise any special right of public meeting either for a political or any other purpose . |
| 22 | Exclusion of a pupil from school may be temporary ( either for a fixed or indeterminate period ) or permanent . |
| 23 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 24 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |