Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] for a " in BNC.

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1 But whether you 're backpacking with all your camping gear , food and so on or just out for a day walk , it pays to take the trouble to assess your requirements before buying .
2 But anyone can bypass their GP and go straight to an NHS GUM ( genito-urinary medicine ) clinic for immediate and confidential treatment — or even just for a sexual health ‘ MOT ’ between partners .
3 About the same time , and rather surprisingly for a Tory committed to the old East India Company and one who had lost the remittance contract to the newly founded Bank of England , Herne also joined the so-called tobacco contractors .
4 Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room .
5 And so far for a while , we did . ’
6 But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so .
7 Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) .
8 Second , Byrd 's wide-ranging and extended melodic lines are hard to sing , and harder still for a consort of solo voices to keep constantly in tune , above all when using the vowel-sounds of the past .
9 Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union .
10 At five to eight Gooseneck took Elsa and Amiss aside for a briefing .
11 answered and deep enough for a boat if we had one .
12 The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions .
13 Don ‘ t There 's no reason for launches higher than 200 metres ( 650ft ) and then only for a parafoil type which needs the initial fall to take in air and inflate .
14 At a time when only the Northumbrians , and then only for a time in the reign of Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , minted coins of pure silver , southern England experienced a decline in the quality of its sceattas .
15 The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time .
16 Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun .
17 One such extravagence became a holiday haunt for painters and poets and then home for a family of seven .
18 It is a lovely series of images that Wordsworth brings to mind , but it is not a suitable subject to be translated into a picture , and certainly not for a child .
19 ‘ Nana is too strict and too hard for a little child all alone like you .
20 really very interesting but perhaps just for a start it might
21 But only very for a very short period .
22 But I 've been up the road every day this week , not shopping but just out for a walk , you know ?
23 Ready for takeoff , but still in for a bumpy ride
24 But wide enough for a truck ? ’
25 We then test them thoroughly — but often only for a short period as we wish to get the latest fishkeeping news — including the latest products — straight to our readers .
26 Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all .
27 When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews .
28 But equally naturally for a woman she was very frightened by what happened and you will hear from various colleagues she was very distressed afterwards . ’
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