Example sentences of "for [det] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Experiments and modern calculations suggest that the Sutton Hoo type boat could average a speed of 3 knots for little more than six hours , so that a crossing of the North Sea from Holland to East Anglia could have been achieved in about 14 days , although if sails were available the time would be considerably less ( Green 1963 ) . |
| 3 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 4 | I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds . |
| 5 | So erm so I ca n't confirm booking for that yet but we do have one more meeting before the big box pile up so not to worry . |
| 6 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 7 | The snag is it means you ca n't rent a car : they insist on a credit card for that nowadays so you 're going to see America by bus . ’ |
| 8 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 9 | pay monthly for that now or |
| 10 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 11 | she 'll get paid , she 'll get paid travelling and everything for that so that er I do n't see that that 's erm |
| 12 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 13 | By bidding for half rather than all of LIN there should be no need for McCaw to seek additional funding from BT since its cash resources and existing lines of credit should cover the cost . |
| 14 | they could get ready for half past where with rather doing the |
| 15 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 16 | But er er going beyond that , I think it would be wise for us to assume that we will not get paid time off for this even if we do attempt to disguise it as something else . |
| 17 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 18 | I am not certain that time and rehabilitation is not the best for this rather than sedating them . |
| 19 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 20 | Page references were necessary for this so that pupils could quickly move from purpose to information . |
| 21 | There 's speech for this only when she 's away |
| 22 | None of us has time for much else but the work in hand . ’ |
| 23 | I have never needed to watch Joan Crawford for much more than three hours . |
| 24 | Now , am I waiting for these today or ? |
| 25 | In 1946 , Trinidad and Tobago held their first elections under universal suffrage and , for these politically and culturally fragmented islands , the ensuing decade would be of the utmost importance , for it would see the emergence of a political leader who , through the Peoples Nationalist Movement , would revolutionise the political life of the colony whilst propelling it toward independence . |
| 26 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 27 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 28 | Getting pissed off trying to apply for jobs ( I have n't applied for any yet and I 've missed loads of deadlines ) just thought that somebody out there may have a high flying job for a graduate ( preferably in leeds ) that pays loads of money . |
| 29 | Oh I should n't let them go for any less than five pound a pair . |
| 30 | On a similar tack , Guttersnipe would be intrigued to discover whether Mr Wahlberg was responsible for any more than 20 per cent of the many sexual peccadilloes attributed to him in this column . |