Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 2 | It was certainly done most effectively for one culture some years ago when Romeo and Juliet were transposed into the idiom of youth group clash in modern New York in West Side Story ( p. 95 ) . |
| 3 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
| 4 | It accounts rather inadequately for new products , where quite clearly a significant part of the task of advertising , and its main visible and measurable effect , is to spread awareness , knowledge and information about the new brand . |
| 5 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 6 | At a time of so much egocentric materialism it 's refreshing to see the NI fighting so effectively for imaginative humanitarianism . " |
| 7 | When she corrected my accent one evening she said , " It 's all right for other people to have regional accents but not for oneself " I puzzled over this . |
| 8 | It was all right for big removals but not certainly for three-piece suites and the like . |
| 9 | Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all right for old Ryan , ’ Malleson went on . |
| 11 | If the Audit Commission is to continue to do the work that it does so successfully for local government , and to achieve better value for money , it must be independent and impartial , and its reports and work must be respected . |
| 12 | It had just one room up and one down , big enough only for two people to live in . |
| 13 | There is a great excitement at the opening of a brand new store , and this must be especially so for former staff who remember the old days . |
| 14 | This is especially so for vulnerable groups ( such as pregnant or lactating women , and children ) . |
| 15 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 16 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 17 | If they have to stay in the trench long enough for new roots to develop , they are not so likely to be damaged if you lift them from loose , friable soil . |
| 18 | She brought her hands away from her face only long enough for one look before continuing into the hall and up the stairs . |
| 19 | Overall it offered a strategic solution to many of London 's problems — though , as it was realized later , only if the world would stand still long enough for desirable change to be effected without being overtaken by other events . |
| 20 | One flew forward , obviously dead , and the others were disoriented long enough for several shots to send them sprawling across the tunnel . |
| 21 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
| 22 | Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to be invoked and adaptation to occur . |
| 23 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |
| 24 | So much for traditional cabinet government . |
| 25 | So much for limited government under the law ! |
| 26 | So much for parental interest in education , Hank muttered . |
| 27 | So much for modern animals . |
| 28 | so much for international success … what about Swindon … he has n't scored for them in the league yet … but would give anything … and everything to get amongst the goals |
| 29 | So much for firm stands . |
| 30 | So much for forward planning . |