Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [det] [noun] " 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 | Children of 4 years and upwards may be developed sufficiently for this technique to be effective . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the example given below for each entry , the default settings are used when a parameter is omitted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 10 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 11 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These manuals are intended only for those people closely involved in setting up and managing a LIFESPAN system . |
| 14 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 15 | Mothers and calves may remain together for many years , from 3–6 or even 8 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 21 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 24 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 25 | Hill ( 1963 ) showed that for equal phase rigidities , G , the following result holds exactly for any geometry whatever where are the Voigt and Reuss estimates found earlier . |
| 26 | James Thomas Knowles senior and his son James Thomas Knowles junior entered separately for all parts of the competition with designs in an eclectic manner . |
| 27 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 28 | Each pattern 's weight W is added once for each occurrence of the pattern P on the board . |
| 29 | However , it might be that , at first , such tests should be set only in those subjects which constitute the ‘ core curriculum ’ to be instituted nationally for all schools . |
| 30 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |