Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 32 | They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised . |
| 33 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 34 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 35 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 36 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 37 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 38 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 39 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 40 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 41 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 42 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 43 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 44 | It drenched the prize , his skin : smooth belly and thighs , for all the more exciting . |
| 45 | She therefore concluded that ‘ it may be necessary to make the State system a flat rate one and secure the necessary gradation by supplementary allowances from an occupational pool for all the higher grade occupations ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 236 ) . |
| 46 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 47 | Salvaged in days after a disastrous false start , it 's tempting now to think of ‘ The Smiths ’ as merely an hors d'oeuvres for what was to come but that is to forget the vigour/languor with which this entered the lives of a generation . |
| 48 | " I woll that the said Felliship shall have for evermore the presentement , nominacion , and admyssyon of the said two Preestes of the said two services and the removing and puttyng out of them … |
| 49 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 50 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 51 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 52 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
| 53 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
| 54 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 55 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 56 | The concept of ‘ continuing education ’ , for long a part of European thought , is now taking firm root , even in the UK . |
| 57 | He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision . |
| 58 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 59 | In these conditions there was no place for what H. E. Bates called ‘ the air of silent refrigeration , the arid cross-examination of stares ’ ; the war had ‘ smashed the silence ’ , for long the hallmark of railway travel in Britain . |
| 60 | Since watches were for long the toys of the rich , it is not surprising that often when ordinary folk encountered one they were extremely puzzled and were even inclined to look upon it as something evil and dangerous . |