Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABBERLEY : Getting on for five in the morning . |
| 2 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 3 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 4 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 5 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 6 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 7 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 8 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 9 | This figure is then broken down for each of the UK countries . |
| 10 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 11 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 12 | ENTRIES are pouring in for one of the region 's biggest sponsored cycling events — the Tour de Tendring , which will be held on May 9 . |
| 13 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 14 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 15 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 16 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |
| 17 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 18 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 19 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 20 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 21 | This makes up for some of the failings of the pancreas , but it leaves the diabetics reliant on an insulin supply , and unable to fine-tune the level of insulin in the way that a healthy pancreas would . |
| 22 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 23 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 24 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 25 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 26 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 27 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 28 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 29 | Chasing a massive 287 for six , which included a powerful 122 off only 113 balls from Phil Simmons , South Africa succumbed to some accurate bowling to be all out for 180 in the 43rd over to give West Indies victory by 107 runs . |
| 30 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |