Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 2 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 3 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 4 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 5 | All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients . |
| 6 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 7 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 8 | It was also skilfully manipulated for political purposes . |
| 9 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |
| 10 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 11 | The general reconnaissance raid , mounted to find out what enemy defences if any stood along a stretch of coast , developed into the assault pilotage surveys of 1943 and 1944 , secretly landing for specific intelligence of beach conditions and defences . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Ante Markovic , introducing the currency reform in line with a controversial IMF-backed package of economic austerity measures announced by him on Dec. 18 , 1989 , had said also that wage increases would be linked to the new dinar 's exchange rate , meaning that wages were thus effectively frozen for six months at November 1989 levels . |
| 13 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 14 | Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh . |
| 15 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 16 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 17 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |
| 18 | Manufacturers have also been putting a lot of resources into providing a wide range of dry foods especially formulated for marine fish species . |
| 19 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 20 | When is a building sufficiently furnished for full habitation ? |
| 21 | Tawney , Sadler , Bray , Gibb , Best and Ogden , and Dyer , among others , all argued for trade-based courses with an emphasis on practical instruction . |
| 22 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 23 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 24 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 25 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 26 | Mr Heseltine , when Secretary of State for the Environment , constantly argued for extra resources which were withheld by Mrs Thatcher and the Treasury , and succeeding ministers have been no more successful . |
| 27 | The TSB 's new Family Bonus plan allows up to eight in a family to pool their nest eggs and so qualify for higher rates of interest . |
| 28 | The use of weights coupled with longer exercise periods is very demanding and is only intended for serious athletes . |
| 29 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 30 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |