Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 3 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 4 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 6 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 7 | Tranquillizers should be prescribed only for short periods to help patients through crises where their levels of anxiety are such that their coping ability is grossly impaired . |
| 8 | Engineers are devising a modular robot ( see picture ) comprising standard sections that can be joined together for specific applications . |
| 9 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 10 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 11 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 12 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 13 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 14 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 15 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) can be solved analytically for spherical impactors in an isothermal atmosphere if and C H are held constant . |
| 16 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 17 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 18 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 19 | It cares little for social conventions , either . |
| 20 | In June Lithuanians had voted overwhelmingly for Russian troops to be withdrawn by the end of 1992 ; Latvia and Estonia had reportedly also made the same demand . |
| 21 | One Midlands wine wholesaler was ordered to clear dust from a warehouse floor used only for cased goods , the association said . |
| 22 | Although Doodlebug breaks no new ground and may not prove challenging enough for hardened players , it 's still a neat little platformer . |
| 23 | The original airstrip was designed only for short nights to the mainland in the days when the Foreign Office was encouraging the seduction of the Falklands by Argentina . ’ |
| 24 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 25 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
| 26 | Designed especially for young hands , from age three upwards , the puzzles have 24 extra-large pieces , and are all based on popular nursery rhymes — including Humpty Dumpty , Hey Diddle Diddle and Old MacDonald 's Farm . |
| 27 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 28 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 30 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |