Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results . |
| 2 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 3 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 4 | During the 1950s , however , employers began to press successfully for coordinated , central wage bargaining , which has continued subsequently . |
| 5 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 6 | A principal aim is , of course , to present the pupils successfully for external exams . |
| 7 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 8 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 9 | The opportunities for using knowledge to shop around successfully for good-value credit involve both choosing between different types of credit ( bank loan versus H P , say ) and choosing between different terms or arrangements even within the same credit type . |
| 10 | If the Audit Commission is to continue to do the work that it does so successfully for local government , and to achieve better value for money , it must be independent and impartial , and its reports and work must be respected . |
| 11 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 12 | With the momentum of privatization established , I was able to argue successfully for further legislation . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 14 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 15 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 16 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 17 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 18 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 19 | D. The managers know that labour is available locally for new industries . |
| 20 | Most significantly , Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques , processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses . |
| 21 | During the nineteenth century , the cattle of Friesland in particular were being selected locally for black-and-white pied coats at a time when the cattle of other provinces were of various colours and types . |
| 22 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 23 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 24 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 25 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 26 | Despite such criticisms , Scottish mental health services have often been in the vanguard of community care developments , with services evolving locally for pragmatic reasons . |
| 27 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 28 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 29 | But she loved him enough to understand his silence and found courage from somewhere for both of them . |
| 30 | At least it provided somewhere for Lucien to anchor his attention . |