Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 2 | Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies . |
| 3 | There is even a suggestion that rewards which are routine and expected may be more motivating that the ones given only for extra special effort . |
| 4 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 5 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 6 | The ‘ explosion ’ of place differentiation in Britain also provides the rationale for the more locally focused treatments in Part III , which are arranged in term of types of places rather than on the basis of the standard regional units used conventionally for more detailed accounts of the geography of Britain . |
| 7 | This has come about for purely geographical reasons . |
| 8 | He stands there for so long and his eyes start to close you know it 's sheer blink and er |
| 9 | The weather dictated that stock must remain indoors for very long periods . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , John was unable to recover from the hunger , thirst and cold he had endured alone for so long and he died peacefully on 3rd November , 1835 , 3 days after he was rescued . |
| 11 | Campbell focuses on girl shoplifters , but it should be stressed that other females who shoplift , perhaps pensioners or single parents , might do so for more basic material needs . |
| 12 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 13 | The owners are forced to admit honestly that they are having their cats ' sex organs cut out for purely selfish reasons — to make them less restless , noisy and , in the case of toms , less smelly and belligerent in the mating seasons . |
| 14 | Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6 . |
| 15 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 16 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 17 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 18 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 19 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | And watch out for cunningly disguised snipers . |
| 21 | Look out for more great Megatapes , rip-roaring reviews and fantastic features in next month 's issue of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
| 22 | Look out for more monthly winners . |
| 23 | Social forces could be used even for directly political purposes , as Sanders himself found when he needed speakers for the South Somerset by-election in 1911 ; F. E. Smith could in fact be prised away from the West End only by social pressure : |
| 24 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 25 | The Lancet should be calling not for slightly improved laboratory conditions , but a massive reduction in animal use , and a shift of resources to issues of relevance to human health . |
| 26 | However , it takes longer for irregularly shaped particles to pass down a sieve column than grains which are smooth surfaced or equant ( Kennedy , Meloy & durney , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | The operating system will consist of three components : HP-UX ; the ConvexOS environment ; and an implementation of the Open Software Foundation 's I/AD Mach microkernel developed specifically for massively parallel systems . |
| 28 | Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many , pressing problems . |
| 29 | And it will continue to campaign vigorously for more flexible working , better maternity rights and anything else that will ease the working mother 's load . |
| 30 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |