Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 4 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 5 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 6 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 7 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 8 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 9 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One Midlands wine wholesaler was ordered to clear dust from a warehouse floor used only for cased goods , the association said . |
| 14 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 15 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 16 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 21 | She posed carefully for each exposure . |
| 22 | The country 's budget of £4 million for bus services in 1993–4 is exceeded by its education services budget of £5.5 million used partly for local bus service contracts and partly for purchasing seats on commercially run buses . |
| 23 | Good location for local community and used extensively for other events/activities . |
| 24 | It also produced wood for charcoal burning — the only fuel used extensively for industrial activities before coal became more intensively mined and more widely available . |
| 25 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 26 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |
| 27 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 28 | Rosewood , used mainly for fine furniture and musical instruments , is one of only six commercially traded timber species covered by CITES . |
| 29 | ‘ No. 34 is a somewhat old ‘ lifting shop ’ , now used mainly for smaller vehicles . |
| 30 | The scene changed dramatically for two reasons . |