Example sentences of "for [adj] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only women who have never taken the pill and those who have taken it for eight or more years are followed up beyond the age of 45 . |
| 2 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 3 | Now I 've done the narration for that and that video is a hundred and twelve action packed minutes about Nottingham in nineteen ninety three . |
| 4 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 5 | Spokesmen make statements but no one comes forward to say , ’ I did it , for this and that reason . ’ |
| 6 | Because the presentation of results in lucid and effective language is so important , the qualifying examinations of many professional bodies explore candidates ' aptitude for this and some employers ( the Civil Service , for example ) use similar tests in the screening of job applicants . |
| 7 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 8 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 9 | Personal preferences for this or that novel , although clearly visible in the analysis , will be of a purely anecdotal significance . |
| 10 | ‘ Some very clever , very nice and very holy people need to be turned away from internal debates on the relative clap-happiness of church services or the sexual inclinations of the clergy or whether to write letters to the papers campaigning for this or that party in general elections . |
| 11 | The plan contains many elements of the prognosis of the anarchical factor ( e.g. the estimate made of crops , of the amount of grain available as a commodity , the amount of commodities represented by peasant production generally , and consequently , the estimate of prices ) , and this prognosis becomes the starting point for this or that directive . |
| 12 | As a result , the scrutiny of the estimates in the Committee of Supply became a formal vote to reduce the money for this or that department by a nominal figure so as to permit a general attack on the government 's policy in that field . |
| 13 | Private MPs rise and ask for time for this or that motion or debate which they particularly want , but normally the only concessions the Leader of the House will make is through ‘ the usual channels ’ , that is in private discussions with the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 14 | And you will also receive a special Convalescence payment of up to £800 if you remain in hospital for 10 or more days after an accident . |
| 15 | 10% discount for 10 or more tickets bought at the same time for the same event . |
| 16 | If you wish to make a reservation for 10 or more people , contact your travel agent , and do n't forget the special discounts we make for most groups — see page 11 . |
| 17 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
| 18 | It 's a sign of the times that pop-as-reinvention-of-the-self is something that resonates for fewer and fewer people in the world that is the music press readership . |
| 19 | For three or more particles one has to resort to approximations , and the difficulty increased rapidly with the number of particles . |
| 20 | The applicant may apply for a United Kingdom patent , a European patent to be granted for three or more countries under the European Patent Convention or a " world-wide " patent for one or more of the member countries under the Patent Co-operation Treaty . |
| 21 | Those who have been unemployed for three or more years are not asked about their previous employment , and are thereby excluded from the survey . |
| 22 | Proposed permanent tax changes included ( i ) a phased reduction in capital gains tax from its current level of 28 per cent to 15.4 per cent on assets held for three or more years , to 19.6 per cent for assets held for two years and to 23.8 per cent for assets held for one year ; ( ii ) greater flexibility for individual retirement accounts ( IRAs ) ; ( iii ) the repeal of the luxury tax on boats and aircraft ; and ( iv ) a tax credit of up to $3,750 to help poor families finance health insurance premiums . |
| 23 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 24 | Jenny , , she 's worked for Express for three and half months , and she previously worked for A N C , er , on their pallet service in Sheffield and South Yorkshire area . |
| 25 | Significant cough for 4 or more days with no signs of improvement during measles . |
| 26 | Basically , all employees are covered by the Scheme if they are sick for 4 or more days in a row . |
| 27 | Halifax CAB has begun advice sessions for current and former occupants of a local women 's refuge . |
| 28 | Until the middle of the sixteenth century there was considerable hope , held by the Emperor Charles V among others , that the breach between Catholic and Protestant might yet be closed ; the abortive visit of the Protestant envoys to the Council of Trent in 1551 showed once and for all that that hope was delusive . |
| 29 | For all that these strategies can cause irritation , though , their value lies in the implication — a world away from the commonsense views of Miller and Swift — that the surface meanings of words are only the tip of a massive iceberg . |
| 30 | Scientific searches , with appropriate instrumentation , are now able to prove once and for all that these UFOs do exist , and can provide information about their nature . |