Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 4 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 5 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |
| 6 | Children of 4 years and upwards may be developed sufficiently for this technique to be effective . |
| 7 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 8 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 9 | In the example given below for each entry , the default settings are used when a parameter is omitted . |
| 10 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 11 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 12 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 14 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 15 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 16 | These manuals are intended only for those people closely involved in setting up and managing a LIFESPAN system . |
| 17 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 18 | Mothers and calves may remain together for many years , from 3–6 or even 8 years . |
| 19 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 20 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 21 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |
| 22 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 23 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 24 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 25 | Members of groups , especially those in their formative years , find themselves thrown into unnaturally close contact with one another , squashed together in the backs of uncomfortable vans night after night , obliged to eat , live and even sleep together for much of their time . |
| 26 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 27 | He and I do not perhaps instantly fit into the standard parliamentary stereotypes of the steady old stallion and the keen young foal who are usually harnessed together for this occasion . |
| 28 | This kind of arrangement may be possible in the more flexible reports of major excavations now being planned , and will be a great advance on the old-fashioned set-piece type of report which seems to be designed only for those wanting to study particular types of artefact , rather than the history and significance of the site itself . |
| 29 | They were gentle , because Bridget Ryan was a quiet woman ; Jack Ryan blustered enough for both of them . |
| 30 | An important step was to show that if the semiconductor is cooled sufficiently for all the electrons to be in the lowest permitted energy states , then the mobile electrons in the inversion layer can move only in two dimensions . |