Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of European citizenship may , however , seem a little absurd for those English fans who spend most of their time abroad abusing foreigners and orchestrating international hooligan networks . |
| 2 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 3 | in my area , and we are most grateful for that . |
| 4 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 5 | I would be most grateful for any assistance offered . |
| 6 | Please note that we would be most grateful for any handouts or further information you would like to send us . |
| 7 | I would be most grateful for any information you may have pertaining to the RLS centenary be it an update of your present events or any contacts you may know of . |
| 8 | This wonderfully rich and moist fruit cake may be a little strong for many young children 's tastes , but it is a lovely alternative for an older child , for a special occasion such as Christmas , or when the cake needs to be kept for some time . |
| 9 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 10 | The proposals , described as the most far-reaching for 50 years , were expected to be the subject of intense lobbying from the financial and banking sectors when they came before Congress for approval . |
| 11 | ONCE again Liberal Democrat Cun ben Ord has shown by his public utterances that he is wholly unsuitable for public office ( Echo February 25 ) . |
| 12 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 13 | Both effects can be exploited to separate isotopes — for example in enriching uranium by increasing the ratio of uranium 238 compared with uranium 235 , although the first is currently the most used for large-scale enrichment . |
| 14 | Strategy 3 was that most used for clerical and sales ( 57 per cent ) and for skilled manual ( 60 per cent ) . |
| 15 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 16 | TOPR is fine but only for those who can afford to be effectively unemployed for several months . |
| 17 | No one could expect the blessing of the Most High for such pursuits . |
| 18 | This was most marked for large bucket sizes ; IBM fourteen-record bucket files gave average retrieval times increased from 40 ms to 55 ms as a result of 40 per cent of the file being stored in overflow . |
| 19 | Breaks in ‘ sleeping ’ probe coverage , most clear for YAC probes , correspond to the groups of clones probably belonging to other regions of the genome and are usually hit by only one cosmid probe . |
| 20 | I thought this wholly apposite for all the people working in the Undercroft in Christian Aid Week . |
| 21 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 22 | In doing so we have argued that the processes involved in word recognition are rather different for spoken and printed words . |
| 23 | The Building Notice is most suited for minor jobs associated with dwellings . |
| 24 | While features which are points of contrast between two dialect systems appear to be the most salient for would-be imitators , they are also potentially the most difficult to copy correctly . |
| 25 | Thorn 's ( 1968 ) classification is in many ways the most interesting for social geographers . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's beautiful ! ’ she said , and voice and accent had become wholly French for one moment . |
| 27 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 28 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 29 | I am again extremely grateful for that intervention . |
| 30 | There are always moments however , when you 're extremely grateful for those planned guidelines . |