Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 2 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 3 | Beyond the door lay the cargo compartment , bare , bleak , functional and obviously designed for one purpose only , the transport of missiles . |
| 4 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 5 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 6 | But where the qualification is the doing of something of value to the seller , and where the qualification only suffices for one sale and must be reacquired before another sale , I find it hard to regard the repeated acquisitions of the qualification as anything other than parts of the consideration for the sales . |
| 7 | She 's only going for one class . |
| 8 | Each new barrel costs £1.50 ; they are normally only used for one race and there are 50 barrels on a raft . |
| 9 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |
| 10 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 11 | A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide , and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles . |
| 12 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 13 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 14 | The committee 's just the cover , I only work for one man . |
| 15 | So much work for one angel . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll just stay for one game , ’ Christine said , unable to resist the longing to play . |
| 17 | Now I 'm not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear Mr has there , but I think we might be able to learn something , do you ? |
| 18 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 19 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 20 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 21 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here . |
| 24 | He 's had plenty of dealing with your sort — he 's not fooled for one minute and neither am I ! ’ |
| 25 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 26 | ‘ You have n't been listening , Claudia ; we 're not parting for one moment until I find Garry — and it 's time you called me Roman . ’ |
| 27 | Despite this wide canon , she remains best known for one thing — vampires . |
| 28 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 29 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 30 | If the Oxford can not fly for one reason or another , she will still be the only ‘ live ’ Airspeed aircraft in the world . |