Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 2 | I have not heard the ’ white heat of the technological revolution ’ speech made so well for many years . |
| 3 | We lived together happily for many years and now it has come to killing each other 's babies . |
| 4 | The symptoms reported more frequently for those in residential homes are shown in Table 3 . |
| 5 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 6 | Since addition errors occurred least frequently for both open and closed classes of lexical items , the major type of error occurring with closed class lexical items was loss . |
| 7 | The clamorous bells had come too soon for both of them . |
| 8 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry you came so far for such a reason , Monsieur Lemarchand . |
| 10 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 11 | ‘ You came here tonight for several reasons , but none of them was to smooth our working relationship , so why lie ? |
| 12 | They appear , like miniature miracles , in any pool of water , however transient it may be , complete with wheels or crowns of cilia , minute beating hairs which function equally well for both finding food and for locomotion . |
| 13 | The Group operated quite effectively for several years and was responsible for the production of approximately two-dozen tape-slides concerned with bibliographic instruction . |
| 14 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 15 | Some scholars follow him , but the step certainly carried offerings , and the style of the building-sculptures is often felt too early for that date . |
| 16 | Turning once more , my father became still again for several seconds , contemplating the steps before him . |
| 17 | It hurt her to think that Fernando cared deeply enough for another woman to do it . |
| 18 | How it differs from Liphook , however , is that the head teacher is wise enough to understand that all children are individuals and what works for one may not work so well for another . |
| 19 | He went on : ‘ We 're going to have a jolly good time after waiting so long for this . ’ |
| 20 | The police already employed him on an item of service basis , and paid generously enough for each case . |
| 21 | Thirdly , observer ( signal detection ) bias , which may occur when a particular sign or symptom signals the observer to look more intensely for another sign or symptom . |
| 22 | B is that notional point on the scale which would be used equally often for both . |
| 23 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 24 | The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny . |
| 25 | Both arbitration and litigation have an independent existence beyond any specific application , because they can be used very widely for all kinds of dispute resolution . |
| 26 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 27 | In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order . |
| 28 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 29 | It takes so long for another type to convince the B t 's that it is z = 0 , that any long run benefit from this is outweighed by the cost , of acquiring such a reputation . |
| 30 | Note also that the game was played just once for each pair , so there was no reason for the receiver to refuse in the hope of prompting a better offer next time . |