Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy of Her Majesty 's Government , which is to support the efforts of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is the wisest policy for both the British Government and other Governments in the Community . |
| 2 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 3 | With the conduct of hostilities the paramount concern for both the USA and Britain , civil aviation remained a minor issue in the early years of the war . |
| 4 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 5 | I looked into the little mirror for just a moment . |
| 6 | The Standing Orders of the Houses are such , however , that no mere eccentric has much chance of disturbing the parliamentary calm for even a few seconds . |
| 7 | The sudden snap of Joseph 's history book closing caused the senator to glance up briefly but he did n't pause in his monologue ; his abstracted gaze followed the younger boy for only a moment as he sauntered away along the deck . |
| 8 | She lingered over her meal , putting off the inevitable homecoming for just a little longer . |
| 9 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 10 | It should be explained at this point that each university is funded at the full rate for only a core number of ‘ Fully Funded ’ students in each of 25 ‘ narrow ’ subject groups . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose all the sorting out at the flat will take up the spare time for quite a while . |
| 12 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 13 | Osteonecrosis is believed to be a result of ischaemia of the juxta-articular bone for either a short or long time . |
| 14 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 15 | As a trivial example , one student may have scored five out of ten on his arithmetic test by answering the five additions correctly and the five subtractions incorrectly while his/her friend is given the same score for precisely the converse performance ! |
| 16 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 17 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 18 | I think I 've sat is those auditorium seats in the same format for quite a few years now . |
| 19 | Three more tries followed to rub more salt into Trinity 's wounds and put Crusaders into the second round of the Regal Trophy for only the second time in their history . |
| 20 | Coffee has been drunk in the Middle East for over a thousand years and its popularity spread rapidly throughout the world as explorers began to travel widely . |
| 21 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 22 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 23 | This ensure that there is something going on the whole time for both the spectator and the participator . |
| 24 | This is going to be the last party for quite a bit . ’ |
| 25 | Thus the bowl will change its location , whilst that for the pedestal remains the same ( i.e. the permanent location for both the bowl and pedestal ) . |
| 26 | We are hoping to arrange a working weekend for either the 11-12th August or the 18-19th August . |
| 27 | It is important to remember , however , that the village has declined in significance as a social centre for even the ‘ locals ’ among the population , thanks to the growth of largely privatized forms of leisure , such as television . |
| 28 | Food for thought on a wet day for both the developmental and evolutionary biologist . |
| 29 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 30 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |