Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who . |
| 2 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 3 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 4 | None of this could detract from the supremacy of Williams , as Mansell and Patrese dominated the field and scrapped fiercely for the lead . |
| 5 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 6 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 7 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 8 | Insufficient data on survival ( patients admitted only for the management of the acute bleeding ) or incomplete medical records excluded seven patients ; 12 other patients were not studied because of prehepatic portal hypertension ( four ) , associated hepatocellular carcinoma or other neoplasms ( seven ) , or previous shunting ( one ) . |
| 9 | They had no hope of doing that unless the occupants of the Renault stopped somewhere for the night . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Description of Use or in any restriction of driving to specified persons in this Policy the indemnity to the Policyholder in connection with any motor car described in the Schedule shall operate while such motor car is in the custody or control of a member of the Motor Trade and used only for the purpose of its overhaul upkeep or repair . |
| 11 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 12 | The baptistery was , in early Christian times , used only for the sacrament of baptism . |
| 13 | For those not counting calories quite so strictly , there 's this month 's dinner party , designed especially for the cook who wants the best of all worlds — dishes to prepare ahead and freeze , and dishes requiring little , or no , last-minute attention . |
| 14 | Among the treasures to be found there is the Helen Storey range , designed especially for the shop . |
| 15 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 16 | Both Beatrice and Modigliani behaved impeccably for the occasion . |
| 17 | The Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibited the creation of further rent-charges , and provided also for the extinguishment of all existing rentcharges at the end of sixty years starting on 22 July 1977 , or on the date the rentcharge first became payable , whichever is later . |
| 18 | She headed straight for the coffee-pot . |
| 19 | The legal position was not entirely clear : if the extract was short enough , then it was permissible to use it , because an extract from a book used purely for the purpose of comment did not constitute a breach of copyright , but in the present circumstances , when it was used for purely political purposes , I was not so sure . |
| 20 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 21 | At Windscale in 1957 a sudden temperature rise and ignition of the uranium fuel cartridges within an air-cooled graphite moderated reactor ( a type designed solely for the production of military plutonium ) led to the release of ionizing radiation from the reactor stack . |
| 22 | Glumly we headed Islingtonwards for the ritual finger-wagging and fine . |
| 23 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 24 | Locations 34–48 are a separate building inside the Castle walls , used exclusively for the accommodation of guests . |
| 25 | As preparations moved ahead for the invasion of Europe , the American Army was landed in Scotland at the Gareloch and Loch Ryan . |
| 26 | In an attack on all computer book publishers ( including themselves ) , they see the scramble to publish books on every piece of newly released software as resulting in shelves full of regurgitated documentation — modified either for the novice or the power user and thus leaving the average user with intermediate skills out in the cold . |
| 27 | I understand the definition of a bar is somewhere used principally for the consumption of alcoholic beverages . |
| 28 | However , even a change from one class of use to another will require planning permission only if the change is deemed to be a ‘ material ’ change : if , for instance , an entrepreneur wishes to convert a shop , which falls into the class of buildings used primarily for the sale of goods by retail , into a restaurant see Westminster City Council v. McDonald 's Hamburgers ( 1986 ) 7 CL 325 ( b ) . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced an agreement with Intel Corp under which the two will develop a chip set designed specifically for the HP 700/RX family of Intel 80960 RISC processor-based X-Window System stations . |
| 30 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |