Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His mouth was set hard and his eyes were filled with a cold rage that was all the more dangerous for its very restraint . |
| 32 | A kiss on the head and she was off , leaving him the more deprived for his brief spell in the full sunny glow of her attention . |
| 33 | It is simply that one is a more likely response for the middle-class housewife and one is more likely for her working-class sister . |
| 34 | Dr Barham is a polymer scientist in the Department of Physics but is fast becoming more famous for his public lecture on The Physics of a Black Forest Gateau . |
| 35 | 1 April 1992 saw the introduction of the government 's new Duty of Care regulations under which most companies who produce or handle waste will become directly responsible for its safe management from ‘ cradle to grave ’ . |
| 36 | Mrs Levine argues with some conviction and at great length that the break-up of Asquith 's romance with Venetia was centrally shattering to the prime minister , was directly responsible for his flaccid performance in the contemporaneous creation of the 1915 Coalition , and indirectly led to the decline of his grip and power and to the end of the Liberal party as a governing force . |
| 37 | Which of these changes , one wonders , is the more important for our national education ? |
| 38 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |
| 39 | But the Princess Sabatini was no more responsible for her egotistical grandson than she was for tonight 's overblown charity event . |
| 40 | More critical for our present concern ( which is the need to explain the context-specificity of latent inhibition ) is the fact that latent inhibition can be abolished by a change of context even when the test context is fully familiar , provided that pre-exposure to the test context and the target stimulus have taken place separately . |
| 41 | Not only was it more convenient for his financial deals in international negotiations to be done there , but he needed more dancers . |
| 42 | Selective demolition of some post-Victorian accretions ( like the independent WC block on the western boundary ) helped to make the building more suitable for its new use , but otherwise external alterations were very modest . |
| 43 | No work by the artist is , says the Tate , more suitable for its national collection . |
| 44 | Similarly , experts will talk about Persian carpets and Anatolian ( Turkish ) rugs , regardless of the fact that both countries produce items in all sizes , shapes and designs ; this is probably because Persia is most famous for its magnificent Court carpets , while Anatolia is viewed as the home of the prayer rug . |
| 45 | He is most famous for his political philosophy , which is embodied in his Elements of Law , completed by 1640 though not published until 1650 ; in his De Cive ( ‘ On the Citizen ’ ) of 1642 ; and , in particular , in his Leviathan ( 1651 ) , a classic and perenially studied account of man 's move from a primitive state of nature , in which life is ‘ solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short ’ , into an organized society , with absolute power vested in the hands of a supreme authority . |
| 46 | Pascal , Blaise ( 1623–1662 ) A French theologian and mathematician , Pascal is most famous for his unfinished Pensées ( Thoughts ) , in which , by means of brilliant , pungent remarks , he attempts a vindication of Christianity through a series of perceptive observations whose psychological insight and aphoristic style anticipate the approach of the brilliant atheist Nietzsche in the nineteenth century . |
| 47 | Apart from its situation and its unity of style , Salisbury is also remarkable for its high standard of craftsmanship . |
| 48 | Some cinema-goers in Leipzig even confessed that the film had made them feel emotional and slightly nostalgic for their recent past . |
| 49 | Also important for its long-term prospects is its failure to win the approval of the Vegetarian Society , because albumen , extracted from eggs , is used in its manufacture . |
| 50 | The islands are also renowned for their thermal springs and sulphur baths . |
| 51 | Viking 's and Rose Marie 's restaurant close to the hotel are also renowned for their excellent value and are favourite haunts with Four Seasons guests . |
| 52 | Two of Britain 's best-known bosses — each famed for aggressive business-building tactics , one also renowned for his sporty exploits — agreed to take part , then cried off . |
| 53 | While referring to Wayne 's persistent ex-girlfriend ( Twin Peaks ' Lara Flynn Boyle , very funny ) , his subtitles read : ‘ The irony is , I feel partly responsible for her self-nullifying behaviour . ’ |
| 54 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 55 | She uses her car for company business ( about 2,000 miles a year ) and it is also available for her private use . |
| 56 | The above discussion does not cover all aspects of thematic structure , but it is probably sufficient for our current purposes . |
| 57 | Perhaps most important for our present considerations , however , is DELTA ( Development of European learning through Technological Advance ) . |
| 58 | The 1834 Act had made the mother wholly responsible for her illegitimate child so that the privileges of marriage would not be extended to the undeserving . |
| 59 | It is a very simple issue but vastly important for our whole way of life is based upon acceptance of the rule of law . ’ |
| 60 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |