Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ .
2 Deguchi has made a detailed quantitative analysis of stimulated Raman backward scattering for the astrophysical conditions .
3 Early bird catches worm : there are two programs already shipping for the still-unavailable Microsoft Windows NT-run Alpha AXP , Digital Equipment Corp says .
4 Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields .
5 It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height .
6 Road we will have to consider though against other schemes also competing for the next waive of funding .
7 She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable .
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