Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The passengers returned well before eight o'clock in very good spirits , Mercer bringing with him a porter wheeling a case of highly superior bubbles for toasting the Unwins , success .
2 These developments in social psychology and social research made available a whole series of highly sophisticated techniques for measuring attitudes and other social properties .
3 The benefits of more extensive methods for dating and environmental reconstruction were also reflected in the investigation of Quaternary morphogenesis in areas beyond ice sheets .
4 The existence of well developed facilities for borrowing and lending stock can be seen as an alternative to the " repo market " found in the USA and in a number of other countries .
5 A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech .
6 In areas with only restricted opportunities for mixing and dilution of industrial wastes , such as the Baltic Sea , contamination of marine mammals is an especially pressing problem .
7 Others not so fortunate in their relations borrowed from money-lenders who , in this time of gambling mania , set up businesses exclusively devoted to advancing money at extremely high rates for settling gambling debts .
8 As we shall see , in each case the three theories focus on different phenomena to explain the causes of these problems and arrive at very different prescriptions for dealing with them .
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