Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 3 | There are English law cases of the late fifteenth-century for not providing meat , drink , and lodging to a retired father-in-law , while Swedish High Court disputes of two centuries later show grievances ranging from poor food to cursing and physical violence . |
| 4 | The confusion in his attitude to Norman was helplessly exposed : he liked Norman for not being , like Raymond Ray , a congenital homosexual , yet when Norman danced with a girl Minton would remark with spite , ‘ Oh , it 's her tonight . ’ |
| 5 | problems outstanding for more than five working days . |
| 6 | problems which have been outstanding for more than five days |
| 7 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 8 | The guidelines , due for later this year , will assign electronic equipment into four categories depending on its susceptibility to RFI . |
| 9 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 10 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 11 | Car production at Tatra has not been profitable for more than 40 years . |
| 12 | ‘ How long it is right for both me and the bank to do the job is not something we are considering at present , ’ he says , ‘ but I would be surprised if I was still here in 16 years ' ; time . ’ |
| 13 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 14 | Matilda was right for once . |
| 15 | John Major was right for once , even if he did n't mean it himself , when he said ‘ Summer will never quite be the same ’ : - ( |
| 16 | Caroline Yates , 16 , schoolgirl ( right ) : ‘ I think the hat 's brilliant — just right for now ’ . |
| 17 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 18 | Did Eve hate the Westwards who were so rich for not taking her into the big house ? |
| 19 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 22 | The half-facelift operation cost £2,500 and left her bruised and sore for more than three weeks . |
| 23 | The triple and quadruple recombinant baculoviruses proved to be stable for up to nine passages . |
| 24 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 25 | All had been clinically stable for over three weeks . |
| 26 | They have produced evidence that the Antarctic ice cap has remained stable for over 11 million years , despite fluctuations in global temperature . |
| 27 | A peremptory demand for " wholeness " , a specialist " science " requiring " cool impartiality " , and strong personal feelings for the object of that science — this was a combination which could hardly be stable for long . |
| 28 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 29 | Previously this ratio had remained stable for more than 20 years . |
| 30 | And yet , this relatively peaceful country , moving out of the stagnation of the 1930s to the growing affluence of post-1945 , was seldom contented or placid for long throughout these forty-four years . |