Example sentences of "[adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 2 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 3 | With the momentum of privatization established , I was able to argue successfully for further legislation . |
| 4 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 5 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 8 | She ran successfully for the Vice-Presidentship of the Student Union . |
| 9 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 10 | Following the recent and much-lamented demolition of the Firestone Factory by Trafalgar House , we pressed successfully for the listing of the School of Music . |
| 11 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 12 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 13 | The companies that have used computer data bases most successfully for competitor intelligence have kept the data bases small and simple . |
| 14 | Having seen Freddie Kurz ‘ guest ’ successfully for the Palace during the War seasons of 1944–46 , including scoring a hat-trick on his Palace debut against Queens Park Rangers on 28 August 1944 ( 7–4 ) , Palace supporters of the period petitioned the Board to secure the free-scoring centre-forward on a permanent basis . |
| 15 | Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children . |
| 16 | Enjoyment obviously does derive from performing successfully for the side but being determined to enjoy the occasion , be it a wet Northampton Monday or a NatWest Final , should n't be reliant solely on personal success . |
| 17 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 18 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 19 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 20 | The opportunities for using knowledge to shop around successfully for good-value credit involve both choosing between different types of credit ( bank loan versus H P , say ) and choosing between different terms or arrangements even within the same credit type . |
| 21 | Frank had come up with his idea due to the accident of circumstances : the work surrounding him in Bristol , and the association of ideas — Blackett 's idea for the pi-meson being applied successfully for the muon . |
| 22 | During several visits to the vessel , information was gleaned from USN crew members that all Spitfires on board the first sailing had taken-off successfully for Malta which was , at the time , being systematically bombed by a ruthless enemy . |
| 23 | Prim McHamish , secretary of the branch , said that they received advice on running a bookshop from the Blackheath , South London , Amnesty branch which has run one successfully for years . |
| 24 | Until its eventual collapse under the weight of accumulated economic pressures , the system operated successfully for almost 20 years . |
| 25 | During the 1950s , however , employers began to press successfully for coordinated , central wage bargaining , which has continued subsequently . |
| 26 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 27 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 28 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 29 | Behind Rayne stood his two servants , Ant and Monkey , as thin as their master was fat ; their job was to deliver the food to those who bid successfully for it . |
| 30 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |