Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Select part , or all , of the following paragraphs , according to whether the parties have been recently widowed/divorced or alone for many years . ) |
| 2 | Let us assume that within a certain time , probably around a year or so for most people , you will have achieved your ideal weight , a good , firm shape , and a reasonable level of physical fitness . |
| 3 | Renee had replied with the most perfect right cross to the seaman 's jaw ever seen in the pub , or outside for that matter . |
| 4 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 5 | The chances are , the ones offered for sale will be under the 10cm mark , usually around 5 or 6cm : , and you can expect to pay a tenner or more for this size . |
| 6 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 7 | Three remembered having iron injections in childhood , two had received iron during pregnancy , and the other nine had taken courses of iron or folic acid , or both for many years . |
| 8 | As he had said in a lecture delivered in Dublin in 1936 , ‘ I have myself no capacity whatever for abstract thought or indeed for any sort of thinking ’ ( the Southern Review , October 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Client will not be liablewhether under this indemnity or otherwise for any claims arising directly or indirectly from the gross negligence or wilful default of any Indemnified Person . |
| 10 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 11 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 12 | The Ovation 1992-H Collectors series will only ever materialise once , and so for that matter will this competition to win one . |
| 13 | And so for that time we live now , both of us , and we are perfectly happy , and the waiting is not weary , but good and happy for us both . |
| 14 | And so for this reason , cash quickly became lacking , [ and ] the gold coin was debased . ’ |
| 15 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 16 | And so for these characters it is . |
| 17 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 18 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 19 | The planned towns are the easiest kind of urban landscape to understand , and perhaps for that reason the least interesting to the curious traveller — however attractive they may be to look at . |
| 20 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 21 | The letters pronounced separately , D.I.Y. , do not produce a particularly pleasing sound and perhaps for that reason this pronunciation is not popular among the general public , so in the spoken language DIY Shop usually remains the rather cumbersome Do It Yourself Shop . |
| 22 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 23 | The School Curriculum was distributed to every school in England and Wales , and perhaps for this reason there was a wider span of reactions , some of which seemed more positive . |
| 24 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 25 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 26 | The treaty lays down that a single currency will come into being by 1999 , but only if those convergence conditions are met and only for those countries which meet them . |
| 27 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |
| 28 | ( c ) Where the regulations confer a discretion on directors with regard to the acceptance of transfers , this discretion , like all the directors ' powers , is a fiduciary one to be exercised bona fide in what they consider — not what the court considers — to be in the interest of the company , and not for any collateral purpose . |
| 29 | These are however matters for the Law Commission and not for this appeal . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |