Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve 's wife , Norah , of Woodchurch , said : ‘ I 'm very grateful to everyone at the Stirrup for raising this money so quickly for such a good cause . |
| 2 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 3 | They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit . |
| 4 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 5 | Mixtures of the large-flowered kinds are likely to be best for naturalising , as they are often sold in bulk very cheaply for this purpose . |
| 6 | What was most important , though , was that these socially more distinguished patrons were indeed creating a fashion ; they were sanctioning movie-going not only for other less bold middle-class families but also for all that vast number of people caught in the twilight zone between middle-class comfort and the lumpenproletariat . |
| 7 | In a time of economic recession such as that of the early 1990s , there is a strong case not only for low interest rates but also for increased public expenditure , especially on roads , bridges , airports and other civic needs , and on unemployment compensation and welfare payments , all to employ or protect the unemployed and those otherwise adversely affected . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a Budget not just for this year and next year , but the decade . ’ |
| 9 | One of his cleverest tricks yesterday was to throw a bridge across a potential Cabinet reshuffle by laying down a Budget not just for this year — when the effect will be fiscally neutral — but for next , and for the year after too . |
| 10 | Such conflicting expectations change the nature of the psychological contract not only for those who survive the redundancy programme but also for those who will join subsequently . |
| 11 | To add to AW 's existing range of products a number of high quality and complementary brands of beer with the capacity not only for regional development but also rapid national development through AW 's marketing network . |
| 12 | Unemployment Benefit recipients with a Spouse who is not working will usually have an income low enough for those who qualify for topping-up Supplementary Benefit . |
| 13 | The reasons for Wales 's clarity of thinking are not difficult to see : ministers more interested in practical achievement than ideology ; an NHS management team together now for five years ; and , above all , a district structure and population the size of just one of England 's 14 regions . |
| 14 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 15 | But you know that is a danger not just for those who are lost as far as God 's salvation is concerned , there is a danger there for you and I as Christians , of being smug , of being self-satisfied , I 'm alright ! |
| 16 | Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use ( 14 ) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase ( 15 ) . |
| 17 | The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems . |
| 18 | There is a need not only for some ‘ sociological ’ appreciation of the institutional framework and the social function of law and punishment but also for some philosophy of mind and action and a moral philosophy . |
| 19 | He would try to arrange a site meeting with the police to see what could be done to improve safety not only for other motorists but for pedestrians . |
| 20 | These courses are a very important initiative not just for this diocese but for the whole country at a time when we need to find new ways of helping lay people and priests to work together in furthering the mission of the church . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Japan 's position as the pre-eminent capitalist nation of Asia still makes her a focal point not only for Asian/Western contacts , but also for the clash of differing , and sometimes irreconcilable , cultural traditions . |
| 22 | This still enables reasonably compact bar codes to be used , but keeps the reading process easy enough for inexpensive sensors to be used successfully . |
| 23 | Coincidentally , the England squad team up tomorrow for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Turkey . |
| 24 | It shows that something stupid and it just went , spine , and he was sitting on the pavement out there for three or four minutes in agony , |
| 25 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 26 | If they have to stay in the trench long enough for new roots to develop , they are not so likely to be damaged if you lift them from loose , friable soil . |
| 27 | The site manager acts as the focal point of the operation , and gives the customer a single point of contact not only for all aspects of the cleaning programme , but also for other Rentokil services . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's it to you ? ’ drawled Thacker , tilting his head back further for another swig . |
| 29 | The Yugoslav revolution succeeded in preventing the nationalities within its state frontiers from massacring each other almost certainly for longer than ever before in their history and though this achievement is now unfortunately crumbling , by the end of 1988 national tensions had not yet led to a single fatality . |
| 30 | At , at the back of the Three Crowns where that is now , I do n't know whether if it was a bomb meant for the airport , I ca n't think that it was though it was a bit far away for that . |