Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right : Silver Sharks , and Kissing Gouramis grow too large for the ordinary community tank — as a good dealer will tell you . |
| 32 | Philips said the sale was agreed because Matsushita Electronics was becoming too large for the joint venture status to be appropriate . |
| 33 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 34 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 35 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 36 | The new environmental award category has been established to credit products and process developments deemed significantly beneficial for the environment as well as commercially successful . |
| 37 | The gym , in Navigation Road , therefore , bristles with specially designed work-out machines and facilities made easily accessible for the disabled . |
| 38 | Alix has always felt rather sorry for the poor competitive disappointed Ugly Sisters . |
| 39 | The first is to make sure that everyone who gets involved in the taking of someone else 's vehicle is made criminally liable for the consequences . |
| 40 | The curtains were of heavy velvet , but seemed somewhat skimpy for the expanse of window . |
| 41 | Hackworth was one of the great pioneers of the steam locomotive and the eminent railway engineer , D. K. Clark , stated that no single individual had , up to the year 1830 , done so much for the improvement of the locomotive . |
| 42 | Her first meeting with Charles augured somewhat better for the future . |
| 43 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 44 | It seemed somehow significant for the rest of the decade . ’ |
| 45 | LSD seemed just right for the Sixties . |
| 46 | How can doctors be made more accountable for the resources they use and what kind of incentives are appropriate ? |
| 47 | September 1979 ) , in addition to our own discussions at that time with representatives of the lenders ; repeating the exercise seemed unduly costly for the sake of up-to-the minute figures . |
| 48 | It is like running the first 100 metres like Carl Lewis , getting into gear but pushing really hard for the whole race as you go along . |
| 49 | On 14 October 1661 Rose was appointed the king 's gardener at St James 's — that is , the man in charge of establishing a garden between the Mall and the backs of houses in Pall Mall , a garden disturbed about 1709 for the building of Marlborough House and Carlton House . |
| 50 | He has in my view done as much for the West Riding as anyone with whom I have worked . |
| 51 | It is equally if not more striking that these remarks about mania in the individual manic-depressive of modern times hold perfectly true for the cultural equivalent : the first cultivating societies . |
| 52 | For capitalism the land was a factor of production and a commodity peculiar only by its immobility and limited quantity , though , as it happens , the great opening of new lands at this period made these limitations appear relatively insignificant for the time being . |
| 53 | There he swung , thin legs jerking , the white , thick-soled running shoes looking incongruously heavy for the bony legs . |
| 54 | CO ON sock and frilly knicker specialist Sherwood Group ( steady at 760p and now capitalised at £140m ) is looking too big for the unlisted securities market and a move up to the main market may well accompany Tuesday 's year-end profits . |
| 55 | Night shooting , usually with a .22 rifle or shotgun , comes into its own after harvest and continues until such time as the winter-sown corn has grown too tall for the rabbits to be seen . |
| 56 | Nevertheless , one does not have to be a hedonist to agree that a person is somehow impoverished by living too much for the future or for other people , and ‘ Be aware ’ can show us why . |
| 57 | The death of the Emperor Henry VI in September 1197 , leaving a son of two , came too late for the ageing Celestine to reap the benefit , although he immediately began to re-assert papal claims to the Patrimony , the duchy , the March and Tuscany , now fallen into imperial hands . |
| 58 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 59 | It would be different , of course , if the fire were made too large for the grate . |
| 60 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |