Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began using heroin at the age of 18 and has used it more or less regularly for five years . |
| 2 | In particular , to be a " regular casual " working more or less continuously for one organisation is incompatible with working only as and when one chooses . |
| 3 | One could quibble about some interpretations that are proffered , though that is not unusual amongst advocates of action research ; but for anyone vaguely dissatisfied with more traditional forms of research , or more importantly for this publication , teachers wanting to undertake systematic analysis of their own practice , this book is a readable and stimulating introduction . |
| 4 | It is often difficult in retrospect , or even contemporaneously for that matter , to discern the part that psychic repression plays in any instance of homophobia . |
| 5 | Within a month of filming the episode she flew back to London — heart of her new global empire — where she planned record and film work designed to guarantee that soon she would never need to work in Ramsay Street — or anywhere else for that matter — again . |
| 6 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 7 | The end-product of one generation of selection is the starting point for the next generation of selection , and so on for many generations . |
| 8 | This lady also started a shop for shoes , leotards and so on for other classes , so soon I added pink and white to my colours , with the occasional black one as well . |
| 9 | The women who leave Seascale in 1950 will produce approximately a×b×27 children , as will those who leave in 1951 , and so on for 14 years . |
| 10 | And so on for three hours on one piece of celery and a prune wrapped in bacon . |
| 11 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 12 | And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child . |
| 13 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 14 | There is usually a formal system of discounts , for advertisers spending over a certain level with the station , and perhaps even for early booking , and whenever a station has time to sell which it fears it might fail to dispose of it is possible for the buyer to negotiate on the price . |
| 15 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 16 | It is particularly applicable to farms with a high proportion of land suitable for cropping or grassland conservation and less so for marginal or upland areas . |
| 17 | Indeed U may have no conventional meaning , which allows for the creation of new terms , nonce expressions , and thus ultimately for some aspects of language change ( for an explanation of how these communications may be understood , see Schiffer , 1972 : Chapter V ) But crucial for pragmatics , Grice 's theory explains how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker-meaning ( Grice 's meaning-nn ) and sentence-meaning . |
| 18 | Residential respite care for people with learning disabilities , and possibly also for other user groups . |
| 19 | There are a number of reasons why maintenance research is less attractive than productivity research in general , and particularly so for marginal areas . |
| 20 | ( It is true that to say " women " could at the time , and even today for many people , be regarded as discourteous . ) |
| 21 | Given the reality of the current difficulties with the use of office systems as tools to manage large volumes of records ( a task for which , on the whole , they were not originally designed ) , how can records managers contribute to improving the situation primarily for the creating organisations , and indirectly also for other potential users of the records ? |
| 22 | The area so far excavated was the size of a football pitch , and deep enough for three levels of laboratories and workshops that would be concrete-lined . |
| 23 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 24 | Staff who wish books to be left out may only use the North side tables for this purpose , and then only for limited periods by arrangement with the Library staff . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 26 | These give only limited vibrational information , and then only for small molecules . |
| 27 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
| 28 | And then home for five weeks and back for another two weeks . |
| 29 | Bone density was measured initially and then annually for two years . |
| 30 | The I-measure will of course increase with area and indeed linearly for uniform card subjects and for a given light intensity . |