Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 2 | I do n't think it was just the change of publisher that did so much for this author , but her works have become more powerful . |
| 3 | A third of this group , most of whom have schizophrenia , continue to experience symptoms which have responded poorly to treatment and remain quite disturbed for several months or years . |
| 4 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 5 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 6 | In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need . |