Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is probable that little happened for later , several members collectively complained about ‘ one insufferably lazy and inattentive caddie who has no idea how to make a tee ! ’
2 What we had in mind there is a parallel organization to the ones that already exist for other client groups .
3 Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items .
4 The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place .
5 It 's just chat — how 's the family , here 's the latest joke , how 's it going — and that somehow makes for great entertainment .
6 They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses .
7 You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique .
8 Put your pointer over one of the sides of the border that now stretches for twelve cells , click , and drag the range to where you want it .
9 In any case he had the deepest contempt , first to last , for the facile conceptualising that often passes for advanced thought , rather like Orwell 's contempt for W. H. Auden 's partisan poem ‘ Spain' ( 1937 ) :
10 We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in
11 Now that again suggests for this strategic type of inward investment a location away from existing built-up areas .
12 A new 20% initial allowance will be available for industrial and agricultural buildings that currently qualify for writing-down allowances , provided that they are constructed under a contract entered into between 1 November 1992 and 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use for the purposes of a qualifying trade by 31 December 1994 .
13 It will attempt to turn into a commodity software that currently sells for 10 times what Data General will be charging for it .
14 It will attempt to commoditise software that currently sells for 10 times what DG will charge .
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