Example sentences of "at [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 2 | Day Four : A leisurely departure at 10.00am for the long voyage to Trier where you should be safely moored by 3.30pm . |
| 3 | If the letters " commencE " had been identified , then the remaining letter would not be in doubt , at least for the skilled reader . |
| 4 | We conclude that the heterodimeric MHC-encoded transporter is alone sufficient for MHC class I-mediated antigen presentation , at least for the two antigens tested here . |
| 5 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 6 | By organizing much of the process yourself , at least for the key posts , you will enhance your ability to select the right person . |
| 7 | And in this competition , at least for the disadvantaged , group pressure for special favours ( ‘ affirmative action ’ ) is the most powerful weapon available . |
| 8 | The international network , at least for the Western imperial system , added a long ocean voyage between two rail journeys . |
| 9 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 10 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 11 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 12 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
| 13 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 14 | At least for the first year ( 1st April 1993–31st March 1994 ) , the vast majority of residential care places in voluntary and private sector residential and nursing homes , and registered supported accommodation , will be purchased on an individual place-by-place basis for each user . |
| 15 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 16 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 17 | My arrival put paid to her travels — at least for the first couple of years . ’ |
| 18 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 19 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |
| 20 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | The real and only alternative to Thatcherism , at least for the foreseeable future , was a return of the old two-party system , with Labour moving back towards credibility . |
| 22 | For one thing , as it applies only to areas of new or rehabilitated housing , it can have only a marginal impact on overall levels of safety in all residential areas , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | Work on the upper pond is progressing , and soon it should be a think of beauty and joy at least for the foreseeable future , if not forever . |
| 24 | Finally it would be unrealistic to raise hopes of restoring part of the railway itself as has been done elsewhere , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | The government 's decision — a rough mixture of logic and irrationality — to establish a ‘ binary ’ system of higher education completed , at least for the foreseeable future , the policy diagram which contained the CNAA . |
| 26 | Some critics of the Delors Plan have maintained that while the creation of a European currency union may reap net benefits for a number of EC member countries , for others membership of such a union will be positively harmful , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 27 | But it is now clear the discussions are entering the final stages , at least for the forseeable future . |
| 28 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 29 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |
| 30 | By comparison , the risks of ‘ doing nothing ’ , at least for the next three or four years , are less acute . |