Example sentences of "[det] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 32 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
| 33 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
| 34 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
| 35 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 36 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 37 | On Health Master , because it 's quite a common thing where employees can be on full pay for six months , then half for the next six months . |
| 38 | Ideas for those knitters , but also some for the faithful few who keep on knitting . |
| 39 | If , on the other hand , I am taking six ferrets then I need two boxes — one for four as already described and another for the remaining two animals . |
| 40 | No matter how she might have to count the pennies she could always spare a few for the bright yellow flowers which reminded her of home . |
| 41 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 42 | The four-door 600 is stylish from the outside and well-groomed around the cabin , though I did n't care all that much for the light coloured fascia trim the company expects to be popular . |
| 43 | The contrast with the renewed vigour and conservationist sense of Australasian railways in the same period is striking , and says much for the respective cultural health of the Dominions . |
| 44 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |
| 45 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 46 | So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it . |
| 47 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |
| 48 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |
| 49 | And you can enjoy it all for the special inclusive tariff of just £199 for two . |
| 50 | In sum then , while acknowledging the stature of some elements of this constellation , such as the historical aspects of Foucault 's work or the critical élan of Fredric Jameson ( not to mention the giant figure of Habermas ) , Callinicos develops a root and branch assault on claims for the cultural distinction of the ‘ postmodern ’ , for the conceptual adequacy of its theoretical base , and above all for the deleterious political consequences of adherence to it . |
| 51 | The Morse function yields vibrational energy levels given by Eqn ( 5.7 ) , and these have the advantage that they are closely related to those for the simple harmonic case [ Eqn ( 5.4 ) ] |
| 52 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 53 | Results for the current year were likely to show little or no improvement over those for the first six months . |
| 54 | There are many examples of wooden patterns — the most impressive are those for the 1830s cast iron lock gates on the Oxford Canal . |
| 55 | The Salon 's founding team , which remained virtually the same for the first two years , has changed significantly . |
| 56 | When you have completed colour 2 , do the same for the remaining six colours in the palette . |
| 57 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |
| 58 | The basic airframe is the same for the whole Caribbean range , from Tampico to Trinidad TC . |
| 59 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 60 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |