Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , while it is significantly greater than zero , p<0.05 , a correlation of 0.076 accounts for an extremely small amount of the total variance in subjects ’ risk ratings . |
| 2 | They would burn like arc lamps for a very short duration . |
| 3 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 4 | Not only will the advent of records of achievement and GCSE together make considerable demands in this respect in terms of time , it will also require teachers to engage in in-service activities for a very wide range of different assessment procedures . |
| 5 | May I send you my very best wishes for a most successful reunion . |
| 6 | This procedural tactic was the burial ceremony of the EDC , and a setback for both the plans for a more effective Western defence system and the hopes and ambitions for a more united Europe . |
| 7 | Worse , David Pascal , chairman of the NCC , turns out to be a devotee of that well-known rightie novelist Tom Clancy , who presumably never splits his infinitives since this , along with a desire to train schoolchildren not to say ‘ He done it ’ appears to be the main components of Mr Pascal 's plans for a more grammatical tomorrow . |
| 8 | The Centre — with raids in mind — had devised plans for a relatively silent , low silhouette landing craft that became the LCA ( Landing Craft , Assault ) , and produced some other worthwhile ideas , including methods for supplying troops by air . |
| 9 | The fact that as a teenager she had a series of complicated operations for a badly broken leg does not seem to have affected her at all . |
| 10 | The types of problem on which advice and assistance was sought during the past year is surprisingly , and perhaps regrettably , consistent with the experience of previous years … people who are eligible for advice and assistance are still accustomed to consult solicitors for a comparatively narrow range of problems . ’ |
| 11 | He was elected by his brethren for a purely utilitarian purpose , but in God 's eyes he remained just another humble seeker . |
| 12 | RYDAL toured Zimbabwe and , following some problems in recent years , feel , despite defeat in all five matches , that they have laid the foundations for a more successful season . |
| 13 | Nobody participates in meetings for a very good reason : anything at all important is all sewn up before it ever gets on the agenda ’ . |
| 14 | It was nearly a year ago , before the Heseltine challenge , says the college 's Principal , Dr John Beynon , that the Prince of Wales 's advisers approached King 's with proposals for a jointly funded study of the potential of Somerset House . |
| 15 | We have to examine and discuss in great detail its proposals for an immensely complex engineering project . |
| 16 | In the longer term self-help groups may emerge , where librarians can pool views about recent publications , or library suppliers may see openings for a more active approach . |
| 17 | But this merely shifts the problem where the conflict occurs and calls for a very careful examination of whether , and if so the way in which , the individual is exercising that right . |
| 18 | Secondly , it will answer calls for a less economistic analysis of social change and behaviour . |
| 19 | The message , which apparently tempered earlier calls for a more radical approach to the Baltic republics was , however , received differently by Ukrainian leaders who highlighted the significance of Bush 's visit , the first undertaken by a US leader on a state visit . |
| 20 | None of these possibilities is countenanced by competition policy in any of the three jurisdictions previously discussed , though there have been calls for a more protectionist approach in the US . |
| 21 | Its troubled aftermath now served to underline major divisions in Kuwaiti society , with calls for a more open political system , an improvement in the position of palestinian and Iranian minorities , and so on . |
| 22 | There have been numerous calls for a more positive statement of the right to demonstrate peacefully , perhaps by the incorporation of Article 11 of the ECHR as part of domestic law . |
| 23 | Hilda Lodge ( Kent ) has hung up her teaching cap , but will continue to wear her Executive and Publicity Committee hats for a very long time to come , we hope . |
| 24 | Warming occurs so slowly that the descending lithosphere retains its high density characteristics for a very long time . |
| 25 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 26 | Smaller and less costly items such as pens , beauty products and food are much more obvious candidates for a more general distribution . |
| 27 | Except for the fact that they have the boat , they do n't seem to be obvious candidates for a really good time . |
| 28 | I believe that generosity becomes less between nations , as the world economy heads for a more frightening decline . |
| 29 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 30 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |