Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This worked well for those in the A stream but not so well for those in the B stream , and badly for those in the C stream , who got discouraged . |
| 2 | There has not been enough time to prepare properly for each of the Test matches . |
| 3 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 4 | Once you are familiar with the program , selections from the current menu can be made more quickly by pressing the key for the initial letter of the option you require , or you can bypass the menus altogether for some of the most frequently used options by using the predefined HOTKEYS . |
| 5 | ABBERLEY : Getting on for five in the morning . |
| 6 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 7 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 8 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 9 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 10 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 11 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 12 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 13 | Hide some small presents , enough for each of the children , in a spot either in the garden or nearby . |
| 14 | You should bear in mind that a full-grown Severum can measure 8″ or more , so your tank will not be large enough for two in the long term . |
| 15 | We need not concern ourselves with its detailed definition , though it is precise enough for those in the know . |
| 16 | In even the mildest winter , the situation was desperate enough for those in the workshops to make a form of briquette from any form of rubbish bound by rags — and sometimes wired flex — that would give the slightest measure of heat . |
| 17 | A1 Shimano 's Bill Bullock won the league with 0–2–8 , enough for fourth on the day to bring his earnings from the series to almost £500 . |
| 18 | At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy . |
| 19 | Forest had been comfortable enough for most of the first half . |
| 20 | Gloucester were good enough for most of the game … they ran in three tries and were 19-6 up at one stage … |
| 21 | I 'm not sure that a radial-arm saw is accurate enough for this at the best of times , but , at the moment , mine rattles up and down its rails like a train in the sidings , and is definitely not fit for the job . |
| 22 | So much for some of the more salient principles in deciding what you would like to grow , what you have the space for , and what you are letting yourself in for in terms of looking after them . |
| 23 | A further gain is that we do not need a sampling frame for the 10 000 cattle but only for each of the 10 herds ; such a frame could be constructed on the investigator 's arrival at a farm . |
| 24 | Above all , what is clear is that this has become a poker game only for those with the steadiest of nerves . |
| 25 | Lewis , for his part , was to pay the following compliment to de Kruif — surely the most gracious acknowledgement of its sort ever — when Arrowsmith appeared in 1924 : ‘ To Paul de Kruif I am indebted not only for most of the bacteriological and medical material in this tale but equally for his help in the planning of the fable itself — for his realisation of the characters as living people , for his philosophy as a scientist . ’ |
| 26 | Fabliau narrative is characteristically brief , and the plot is complicated and problematic only for some of the characters within the tales , not for the well-informed readers or audience of the piece . |
| 27 | Dexel is in the bizarre position of exporting granules across thousands of miles , only for some of the end products to arrive back in the UK . |
| 28 | The cows were inside for most of the year , being out for only 4–6 weeks . |
| 29 | They also have the occasional darker overtones , and it is astonishing with such colourful , approachable music that it has taken so long for four of the overtures here to receive their first recordings . |
| 30 | This is the Welshman 's best position and he backed Strachan brilliantly for two of the goals . |