Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 2 | Recapturing the city for humans on foot would bring immense benefits not only to those walking but also for the ambience and environment of the city ( Figure 8.7 ) . |
| 3 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 4 | The provision of musical instruments in church should not be seen as solely for the accompaniment and embellishment of singing , but also for solo and ensemble playing before , during or after a service . |
| 5 | Having decided that the doctrine of automatic determination ( ie determination of a contract solely at the will of the party who was guilty of a wrongful repudiatory breach ) did not exist , even in employment contracts , Megarry V-C concluded that as the breach had not been accepted by the innocent party then the contract subsisted and therefore for the period which it had to run — circa four and a half years — the defendant was bound by its terms . |
| 6 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 7 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 8 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 9 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 11 | The whole book is worth buying if only for the fourteenth-century teddy bear and cuddly elephant in colour in plate 27 . |
| 12 | I still believe that even for the most senior colleges , there is value in an external incentive — provided that the Council does not continue for ever its inspectoral function , and becomes instead more of an advisory body in partnership with the colleges . |
| 13 | We believe that certainly for the time being , the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the U K er which now exists . |
| 14 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 15 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 16 | There are many differences between these two bodies , but a detailed comparative study could be useful not only for the two areas involved but also for the southern European countries about to join the EEC . |
| 17 | This has far reaching consequences at the cultural level not only for learning but also for the design of jobs and even for leisure pursuits which increasingly depend on the same kind of interface . |
| 18 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 19 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 20 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , during our — association — you made veiled insinuations about me and Elise — ’ |
| 21 | can , can I just move on to one other issue that I 'd like to look at er , because I think we 've covered that reasonably for the moment which is , how , how will you find love ? , ninety three people said their , their were in love , seven said they were n't , of those seven were , you 've never been in love , was it , have , have you wanted to be ? , would any of the seven who voted no at the beginning , yes |
| 22 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 23 | The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place . |