Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Abacus Practice Management runs on Novell and DOS , on an IBM compatible PC and can be configured for stand alone or for a network . |
2 | Ten minutes and the back of an envelope is seldom enough except for the most gifted . |
3 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
4 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
5 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
6 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
7 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
8 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
9 | Moore joins in , so that for a brief couple of seconds we sound like a small cracked tribute to Sir Harry Secombe . |
10 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
11 | Structuralism may be employed to excavate the principles of classification and order which unite what on the surface appear as highly disparate domains , so that for a particular society food preparation , kinship and myth may be revealed as transformations of each other . |
12 | The sense of disappointment was as sharp as a blow , painful out of all proportion , so much so that for a moment I was almost angry with him for not being there . |
13 | Danjit stumbled forward so that for a moment she felt his lubricious body-thrust . |
14 | Cora-Beth tilted her head sideways so that for a brief moment her cheek rested against his hand . |
15 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
16 | If I beckon , she will certainly come to me ! he thought , and his mind whirled , so that for a moment he barely saw the waiting Fiana candidates and the glittering Sun Chamber . |
17 | Horror coursed through Grainne , so that for a moment the stone room tilted all about her . |
18 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
19 | She was wearing little or no make-up , so that for a moment Melissa did not recognise her . |
20 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
21 | So that for a moment was me — a black receptacle on a black night . |
22 | Sunlight streamed through the windscreen , settling burnished rays over his black hair , turning his olive complexion to gold so that for a moment his face took on the appearance of a mask . |
23 | He laughed softly , the wind catching the low rumble of sound and tossing it around so that for a moment the very air seemed to be filled with it . |
24 | The Workbooks mirror the Student 's Books so that for every Student 's Book unit , there is a parallel page of Workbook exercises . |
25 | The marginal propensity to import is also 0.2 , so that for every £10 million rise in income , spending on imports rises by £2 million and the consumption of home-produced goods and services rises by £6 million . |
26 | A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth . |
27 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
28 | Concerned at the rapid expansion of the hunt , and the declining stocks of small cetaceans around the coastline , the Iwate Prefecture in January 1989 instituted a licensing system , so that for the first time ever , the hunt could be regulated . |
29 | At the Food Research Institute Dr David Southgate , who has made a special study of dietary fibre and whose research is the source of the scientific textbook fibre figures , has provided analytical values for the dietary fibre in a range of usefully fibre-rich canned and packaged foods , so that for the first time these products , which form such a major part of modern eating , can be realistically assessed and used for health value . |
30 | Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers . |