Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation would not necessarily hold true for another council . ’ |
| 2 | The slums built during the Industrial Revolution soon became unfit for human habitation . |
| 3 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 4 | It thus became impossible for any king in future to prolong indefinitely the life of a complaisant House of Commons , as Charles II had done with the ‘ Cavalier Parliament ’ of 1661–79 . |
| 5 | The Crown Estate Commissioners require annual reports which normally remain confidential for four years after termination of the licence . |
| 6 | These are generally considered unsuitable for modern treatment of the mentally ill , but so long as demand for beds is high it is difficult to do more than try to upgrade and improve them . |
| 7 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 8 | I just look tired for some reason . |
| 9 | This year 's accounts have been prepared in accordance with FRS 3 , a new accounting standard which will shortly become mandatory for all UK companies . |
| 10 | The accounts have been prepared in accordance with FRS 3 , a new accounting standard which will shortly become mandatory for all UK companies . |
| 11 | Johnson Matthey has adopted FRS 3 , a new accounting standard that will shortly become mandatory for all United Kingdom companies . |
| 12 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 13 | At 3 ° C , feeding begins but the animals still remain immobile for long periods . |
| 14 | The problem is that , for example , the nitrogen in blood can become available to plants in days and continue for a week or two , whereas the phosphate in bone can not possibly become available for several months . |
| 15 | Also , adoption can not always prove successful for many people specifically want a boy or a girl or if the child has a deformity or abnormality it is often very hard to find a home for . |
| 16 | Having younger children around quickly becomes claustrophobic for older students : with hindsight , I would have found it stifling . |
| 17 | That is to say I deny that there could be a particular revelation of God in any one age , which thenceforth becomes normative for all others . |
| 18 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 19 | The next four cars were more conventional , seating 76 having bogies , and a top-cover which later became standard for double-deck cars . |
| 20 | It is also suggested that the release is sent to the Glasgow Herald and the Scottish County Press ; the latter group covers a number of local papers ( some of which are also considered suitable for Statutory Notices , see paragraph 11c ) . |
| 21 | But the future is also looking good for veteran companies like Harland & Wolff , which is teaming up with overseas firms to assure its future prospects . |
| 22 | Specific data needs to be recorded about piece parts , allowing both the graphical representation and technical data to be clearly defined ready for efficient recall when required . |
| 23 | Many parents , irrespective of class , must also stand condemned for similar dereliction of duty . |
| 24 | The intention to produce a full-scale study of Laxton , and also to make available for other researchers the methodology employed . |
| 25 | ( Interesting how it has now become problematic for another reason . ) |
| 26 | These will hopefully include the installation of remote-controlled cameras , for which the chairman of both standing and select committees have pressed , although this will be expensive — the total cost of equipping one remote control unit from scratch with four cameras ( now considered desirable for best committee coverage ) could be £300,000 , to which must be added £10,000 per room for wiring and fitting brackets for the cameras . |
| 27 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 28 | At the opposite end of the scale is the 1956 Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4 performed with a full-bodied string section that will surely appear heavy-handed for present-day tastes . |
| 29 | It should be noted that , while maiming or wounding are not justifiable for simple recaption of property , yet they may well become justifiable for another reason — self-defence . |
| 30 | They then lived rough for four days before they were arrested in Pontefract , West Yorks , it was alleged . |