Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to Fitzgerald and Sim ‘ there is not one crisis , rather a whole series , which taken together account for the parlous state of the prisons ’ ( 1992 : 5 ) . |
| 32 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 33 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 34 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 35 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 36 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 37 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 38 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 39 | It was all intended for the best . |
| 40 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 41 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 42 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 43 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 44 | it only needs for a little bit of attention on a wire or something |
| 45 | In ordinary aquarium sand or gravel it will merely survive for a few months . |
| 46 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 47 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 48 | This was all designed for a specific purpose . |
| 49 | Many former CD voters apparently voted for the Northern League , which — with the Lombardy League as its core — won 17 per cent in the north of Italy . |
| 50 | Delegates to the signing conference in Lucerne warned that funding for environmental projects would be extremely constrained for the next five to 10 years . |
| 51 | Trips to the reservoirs and dams can be arranged and are highly recommended for the breathtaking views of the Kitzsteinhorn , Gross Glockner and Steinenes Meer . |
| 52 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 53 | The new ‘ Acrylix ’ brush has been especially designed for the acrylic painter to give both freedom and precision in use . |
| 54 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 55 | Only recommended for the larger pool . |
| 56 | d ) any other Question necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded ; and on a Motion so made for a new Clause or a new Schedule , the Chairman or Mr. Speaker shall put only the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill . |
| 57 | The consolation for him and for Britain is that he has been far better prepared for the emotional pressures of his destiny than ever his father was . |
| 58 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 59 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 60 | Her parents exchanged glances , looks that seemed to remember a long wait for a first and , as it turned out , an only child . |