Example sentences of "[conj] for [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 2 | Ideas for rock gardens or for more exposed borders , where taller daffodils are likely to be felled by the wind , the reliable range of cyclamineus type daffodils varies from 8 to 10in high . |
| 3 | The years that immediately follow the end of compulsory schooling can often be seen as a foundation stage providing a relatively broad base for work in a particular occupation ( as do many craft and technician courses ) or for more advanced studies in a specialized field . |
| 4 | Tinning was used either for decorative purposes , for example on Merovingian jewellery , or for more practical purposes , such as providing a reflecting face on Roman bronze mirrors . |
| 5 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 6 | So it is used mainly for brief shots or parts of shots , or for very special effects — perhaps the most familiar being the laser swords in the Star Wars series . |
| 7 | Among the various choices available to electors in different countries are the following : they may vote for one candidate , or a specified number of candidates , or for as many candidates as there are members to be elected ; they may cumulate two votes on one candidate ; they may cast votes on more than one list ; presented with lists on which the parties have arranged the candidates in an order of preference they can change that order . |
| 8 | On the other hand it appears that on occasions drivers may have no memory at all for road signs which they have just seen or for relatively complex manoeuvres which they have only just performed . |
| 9 | The Russians themselves , along with other people from west of the Urals , settled most densely in a zone approximately 400 to 700 kilometres widen following the main land route across southern Siberia , with particularly large wedges near the Urals and between Omsk and Krasnoyarsk , where by the late nineteenth century practically no native people remained except for widely scattered villages of Tatars . |
| 10 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 11 | All employers , except for very small businesses , will be obliged to invest a minimum amount on training their workforce or make a contribution to the local or national training effort . |
| 12 | The liquidity ratio , however , has now been reduced , since bonds ( except for very short-dated ones ) are regarded as illiquid . |
| 13 | Within this green zone , which included old towns like Watford and Reigate and new communities such as Hornchurch and Upminster in the east and Banstead and Orpington in the south , there would be no further urban expansion except for very special cases . |
| 14 | By and large the British Isles , Germany and Scandinavia provided the international migrants , except for specially footloose minorities such as the Galicians and Basques , ubiquitous in the Hispanic world . |
| 15 | As TODAY revealed yesterday , there had been evidence that for over four years he rented a luxury apartment only 11 miles from their bungalow at Caterham , Surrey . |
| 16 | In my judgment this review of the authorities demonstrates that for over 300 years the law has been clearly established that the visitor of an eleemosynary charity has an exclusive jurisdiction to determine what are the internal laws of the charity and the proper application of those laws to those within his jurisdiction . |
| 17 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 18 | Table 9.2 shows that for nearly ten years now voters have agreed about her strength of personality and outspokenness . |
| 19 | For example , Bull and Rumsey ( 1988 ) argue that for visibly different children negative social feedback results in low self-esteem . |
| 20 | Many agree that for too many years we have been ‘ data rich ’ but not capable of computerising the knowledge and experience of highly skilled maintenance engineers . |
| 21 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 22 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 23 | ‘ What you 've got to watch is that for about two hours there are no lights in the train . ’ |
| 24 | Anger that for so long manufacturers have kept us in the dark and industry ’ experts ’ continue to make vital decisions on our behalf . |
| 25 | And it 's worth remembering that for very many children , for many years , their teachers are the only readers of the bulk of their work . ’ |
| 26 | They do not necessarily contradict the view that for more serious crimes women are less severely treated then men . |
| 27 | The main criticism of the notation is that for more specific subjects it can be extremely long . |
| 28 | The briefing obtained from the producer is the best starting point , but remember that for perfectly legitimate reasons this might be changed . |
| 29 | b Completion rates — While there is some evidence that completion rates for non-traditional students are overall somewhat lower than for traditionally qualified students , there is also evidence that completion rates for these students vary considerably depending on their qualifications and previous experience . |
| 30 | Advice and protection were more commonly given for diseases such as tetanus and malaria than for sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis ( table ) . |