Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When is a building sufficiently furnished for full habitation ? |
| 2 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 3 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 4 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 5 | In addition , when applied two or three days prior to going on holiday , protective filters leave the skin better prepared for first exposure to the sun while preserving the natural qualities of the skin . |
| 6 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 7 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 8 | The aircraft industry alone accounted for one-third of expenditure . |
| 9 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 10 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 11 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
| 12 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , ’ the night manager said with the dry kind of irony usually reserved for flying pigs and hell freezing over . |
| 14 | Using a shampoo specially formulated for permed hair is one way to combat the damage caused . |
| 15 | The inflated snobbery of purchasing a ritual traditionally reserved for those of a higher social rank did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century ; conversely , it was a dissatisfied middle class which , towards the close of the nineteenth century , ushered in a less complicated and confusing street procession . |
| 16 | Some privately employed labour also works for non-profit-making bodies . |
| 17 | But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s . |
| 18 | The breeder programme also lives for another year . |
| 19 | This effect also obtains for total eurobonds , in which case it is likely to proxy the uncertainty and adverse interest rate expectations caused by a falling dollar . |
| 20 | In the Philippines , however , President Corazon Aquino had refused to meet him in protest at congressional removal of $96,000 from the $481,000,000 in aid originally promised for 1990 . |
| 21 | Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener . |
| 22 | This is considerably larger than any figure previously reported for surrendered personnel in the 5 Corps area ( although Macmillan had spoken in his diary of " 400,000 Germans " , nothing approaching this figure had been formally reported ) . |
| 23 | Their work culminated in the drug Tagamet or cimetidine , soon widely adopted as the most effective remedy yet discovered for gastric overacidity and gastric and duodenal ulcers . |
| 24 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
| 25 | Absorption by methane certainly accounts for much of this solar heating , but its abundance may be insufficient to produce the whole effect , in which case there may be an as yet unidentified absorber such as a thin suspension of black soot from the photodissociation of methane . |
| 26 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 27 | Marketing for Directors — a two-day programme specifically designed for managing directors , CEOs and executive board members to enable them to set marketing in its corporate perspective . |
| 28 | One justification often advanced for local government is the opportunity thus presented for wider sections of the population to become involved in political responsibilities than could be accommodated at a national level . |
| 29 | In an unusual concession to a man once pilloried daily for his association with the Cultural Revolution and Mao 's despised widow Jiang Qing , his remains were cremated at Peking 's Babaoshan cemetery , a privilege normally reserved for senior cadres . |
| 30 | For the MPhil the portfolio should include one work suitable to form the major item in a concert programme , like a symphony or concerto ; this course normally lasts for two years . |