Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , for the traditional printing and graphic arts industries , the desktop publishing ‘ revolution ’ has taken place largely outside their control and has placed the capability to generate complex artwork directly in the hands of anyone with access to a computer and around £1,000 or less for the necessary software . |
| 2 | Many of the larger investment managers now concentrate on institutional funds or set very high minima of £1m or so for the private client portfolios they will take on . |
| 3 | That bridges much of the spread , but not all : it is worth maybe 5% , less 1% or so for the annual management fee that keeps Whizzquid on his toes . |
| 4 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 5 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 6 | On granting or transferring a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board shall , if as regards the use of the premises for the provision of the customary main meals it appears to the board that it is only for the customary main meal at midday or only for the customary main meal in the evening that the premises fall within paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restricted hotel licence or paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restaurant licence as set out in Schedule 1 to this Act , insert in the licence a condition that there shall be no permitted hours in the evening , or that there shall be permitted hours in the premises only in the evening , as the case requires . |
| 7 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 8 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 9 | New figures show that many millions of homes in London and the South East face crippling bills of £800 or more for the new tax . |
| 10 | The US money supply was allowed to grow at 10 per cent per year or more for the next four years , having been virtually unchanged in 1969 . |
| 11 | Five questions produced success rates of 50 per cent or more for the bottom band pupils , and for seven questions between 40 per cent and 50 per cent obtained the correct answer . |
| 12 | The theory that amplexus is a form of ‘ mate guarding ’ by males , preventing others from mating with the same female , is confirmed by comparing the duration of amplexus in explosive breeding European common frog , only one out Among explosive breeders , competition between males for females is intense and amplexus may last for several days or even for the entire breeding period . |
| 13 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 14 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
| 15 | Goldbach & Rehage ( 1967 ) propose a more general form : or where for the simplest case ) . |
| 16 | Thank you very much , please do stay with us either for the whole afternoon , or certainly for the next |
| 17 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 18 | The Tate collections have long needed to be split : traditional British art in the present building ; modern British ( twentieth-century , or post-1945 ? ) and foreign Schools elsewhere , except perhaps for the jumbo Moore bronzes , which could be recycled for a Thatcher monument , or other suitable purposes . |
| 19 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 20 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 21 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 22 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 23 | The agricultural quality of the land and the need to control the rate at which land is taken for development are among the factors to be considered [ in assessing planning applications affecting agricultural land ] , together with the need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs , and the continuing need to protect the countryside for its own sake rather than primarily for the productive value of the land . |
| 24 | It was better late than never for the 12 lucky winners of a tennis holiday at the Sport Hotel in Eilat , Israel |
| 25 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 26 | Strains are imposed on the self-builders ' families and main jobs , and as a result these schemes are not suitable for all persons and rarely for the elderly . |
| 27 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 28 | And so for the next year Anne lived in Charlottetown , and went to college every day . |
| 29 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 30 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |