Example sentences of "[adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
| 2 | It is a principle that the PA has pursued consistently in time of crisis : successfully for books when sanctions were imposed on Rhodesia and South Africa , less so during the war with Argentina . |
| 3 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 4 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 5 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 6 | Prim McHamish , secretary of the branch , said that they received advice on running a bookshop from the Blackheath , South London , Amnesty branch which has run one successfully for years . |
| 7 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 8 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 9 | Furthermore , both I and my right hon. and learned Friend have made it clear that we want more education provided locally for adults than is currently available . |
| 10 | There are n't many opportunities left locally for girls with good 0-levels . |
| 11 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 12 | How to find an agency : Look locally for ads in health clinics , doctors ' surgeries , shop windows , or check in the telephone directory . |
| 13 | Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got . |
| 14 | Grace is claiming patents for products derived from the natural oils of neem , an evergreen tree , which are used locally for insecticides , contraceptives and soap . |
| 15 | Information : look locally for classes . |
| 16 | Still others — few enough in number — advance relentlessly for reasons even they find hard to fathom . |
| 17 | We stopped briefly a couple of times , presumably for checkpoints and , as on other occasions , the driver would sometimes get out and speak to the people manning them . |
| 18 | On a desk by the window a tray of stamps was in process of being sorted ; there were bookshelves , a cabinet of shallow drawers presumably for coins , a safe , a filing cabinet , journals and catalogues were piled on the floor and , incongruously , a pier table and a French commode stood against one wall looking uncomfortable . |
| 19 | As they do it they make a wish , presumably for children . |
| 20 | The dedicated comic fan may argue that most publications mentioned so far were written mostly for males — what about comics written specifically for females ? |
| 21 | Although the statistics are hardly firm , it would seem that by the end of the eighteenth century county rates , used mostly for gaols , criminal prosecution , constables and , to a smaller extent , bridge repair , aggregated only around £300,000 , but the levying of the parish rate for the relief of the poor was of much greater import . |
| 22 | Then we think about who 's going to be using it ; in an inner-city area , for instance , we might consider what other play opportunities there are nearby to find out whether we should cater mostly for toddlers or older children . |
| 23 | And when he made history , he did so by speaking , mostly for members of his own line and for close collaterals . |
| 24 | I use the ironing board mostly for skirts that have to be steamed to the length required . |
| 25 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 26 | In the General Household Survey of 1981 , about 10 per cent of the registered unemployed declared that they were ‘ economically inactive ’ , mostly for reasons associated with their age , health or because of family or domestic responsibilities . |
| 27 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 28 | One of the many problems that sociology faces is the sheer number of its rivals — unlike , say , physics , which may be reserved mostly for physicists , anyone can play . |
| 29 | MathSoft currently offers around 20 titles , mostly for Windows users . |
| 30 | They were er well they were different to us , they were n't going nowhere from here and er they had no best clothes only same clothes mostly for days and Sundays is n't it , same . |