Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When partners leave the partnership they remain personally liable for all debts incurred during the period of their membership . |
| 2 | He say best stable for that mare is a coffin . ’ |
| 3 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 4 | For example , it is becoming increasingly necessary for much proposed new development to ensure that it is mentioned in the local plan . |
| 5 | By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism . |
| 6 | While today 's cut in interest rates has been welcomed by industrial leaders , the news has come too late for many businesses . |
| 7 | I 'm gettin' too old for that — it 's been ten years , time for me to chill . |
| 8 | The coroner 's Proceedings were once again opened at Reading Magistrates ' Court in Valpy Street , the coroner 's court deemed too small for such a case . |
| 9 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 10 | Interest rates will have to remain painfully high for some months , and departmental spending will be made to stay within the current planning totals : even the big-spending ministers recognise they are involved in bidding against each other , rather than against the Treasury . |
| 11 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 12 | Benefits were made less generous for some , but the major changes affected the tax structure . |
| 13 | Is my hon. Friend aware that we hold entirely responsible for this delay the former Labour Member of Parliament and now Commissioner in Brussels , Bruce Millan , who is playing a fairly despicable party political game ? |
| 14 | It 's that the class antipathies of black American culture the ‘ rap gap ’ have grown too wide for any one person , star or politician , to bridge . |
| 15 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 16 | That 's the people who I would think more probable for those who are living on campus . |
| 17 | While some detectors may run as normal for some time on cheap batteries , in other cases battery life will be ridiculously short leading the operator to conclude that a detector malfunction has occurred . |
| 18 | forthcoming ) seems to imply that it will become increasingly difficult for those over retirement age to obtain any paid work with which to supplement their pension . |
| 19 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 20 | Conditions seem uncomfortably ripe for that . |
| 21 | He uses the term reference for the latter , but as the term has become decidedly unusual for that notion ( see Lyons , 1977 , or other standard texts ) , we shall , with deference , decline to adopt his " reference-qualification " and " reference-qualifiers " , and , in general , substitute the word sense wherever he uses reference . |
| 22 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 23 | The work load had become too heavy for these two offices , still honorary , to remain combined . |
| 24 | Fundamental to the stability of a system of taxation is the level at which people are asked to pay , and the switch from local to central taxation achieved by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget was widely welcomed because it recognised that the tax burden had become too high for any system to sustain , and that is why he took steps to reduce it . |
| 25 | I 'm too , getting too old for that . |
| 26 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 27 | ‘ Getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he told himself . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this kind of caper , Willi , ’ Busacher said testily . |
| 30 | Most people with HIV remain perfectly healthy for several years . |