Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within Bield one survey showed that half of those tenants who moved on to further care from sheltered housing did so wholly or primarily for mental health reasons . |
| 2 | A pacifist , co-operator , Third World volunteer , borough councillor , heartfelt socialist , he served the people of Brent warmly and well for 28 years . |
| 3 | you have to walk so and so for three miles |
| 4 | My new mother-in-law , Martha , has worked long and hard for many months to prepare this wonderful occasion , all the little details such as these beautiful flower/cake decorations were planned by her , and my father-in-law has taken on his second mortgage without complaint , like the good-natured man he is . |
| 5 | They had waited long and patiently for this third call . |
| 6 | He put his head in his hands and rocked backwards and forward for some minutes . |
| 7 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 8 | ‘ We pulled him in once or twice for minor offences , but we were pretty sure he was involved in an armed raid in Plymouth . |
| 9 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 10 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
| 11 | W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood , D. H. Lawrence and Graham Greene , Norman Douglas and Evelyn Waugh , Robert Graves , Harold Acton , Osbert Sitwell , and Lawrence Durrell , all packed their bags and decamped gratefully and sometimes for good . |
| 12 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 13 | Next Jay told them he 'd step aside but only for some ridiculous sum of money . ’ |
| 14 | The distinctive sound and the working success of the whistles will ensure that the results of Nigel Day 's hobby are in continued demand from railways and owners near and far for many years to come . |
| 15 | The college authorities did not aim solely or mainly for brilliant scholars or outstanding athletes , but to develop and train those who were capable of a good pass or honours degree . |
| 16 | I shall not read it out , because there is not time , but it makes the very point that , purely and simply for medium-term policies and commercial reasons , we shall sterilise billions of tonnes of coal . |
| 17 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 18 | The largest single category of activity — overall and notably for social workers — was ‘ supporting services ’ . |
| 19 | Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern . |
| 20 | And this august body of quintessential back-room people must now press loudly and firmly for this to happen . |
| 21 | Local authorities were now permitted to buy land , simply and expeditiously for certain planning purposes , notably in areas of extensive war damage , and areas of bad layout and obsolete development . |
| 22 | Thought I still thought , when that was done , it might be worthwhile to sniff around here and there for any leads worth following that might turn up the stolen phetam . |
| 23 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 24 | Naylor studied her silently and hostilely for some seconds , mutual enmity rife . |
| 25 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 26 | Did she find the first reward insufficient and return again and again for more bites at this financially rewarding cherry ? |
| 27 | The general answer is that you may copy a sound cassette or a video tape or disc for private use , but if it is copied again and again for commercial gain it is a clear breach of copyright and could lead to legal action . |
| 28 | After the last recession ended , unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years . |
| 29 | As he explains , ‘ where the resulting self-definition , for personal or collective reasons , becomes too difficult , a sense of role confusion results : the young person counterpoints rather than synthesises his sexual , ethnic , occupational and typological alternatives and is often driven to decide definitely and totally for one side or the other . ’ |
| 30 | As Kevin Brown and his agent slithered off the rim of the high ground and into the woodland , he drew a small radio from his pocket and spoke quietly and urgently for several seconds . |