Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is a commitment to a set of practical arrangements that should not for a minute outlive its usefulness . |
| 2 | I WOULD just like to assure Raymond Campbell that he should not for one moment think that Glentoran fans will be upset about his move to Linfield . |
| 3 | And indeed Rab should n't for , in mortal danger , that all could see but him , he began to laugh . |
| 4 | The Datapath Magician is a very impressive piece of equipment and must rate as an absolute must either for those users wanting more colours than their 512K card can manage or for those who find the screen redrawing speed of Windows too slow . |
| 5 | Our struggle has taught us also that black workers must never for a moment entertain the thought of separate black unions . |
| 6 | Paul 's position , in short , provides Simon Peter with a viable explanation for why the world has not yet ended , why it may not for another thousand or two thousand years , while at the same time still justifying one 's allegiance . |
| 7 | I may not for instance sue somebody in a court of law . |
| 8 | The clause should therefore be amended to read : " the Tenant " includes the successors in title of the Tenant A landlord may nevertheless for the purpose of privity of contract wish to ensure that the person with whom it is entering into the agreement will be the original tenant under the lease . |
| 9 | Because she knew that now they would never escape and might not for long even survive ? |
| 10 | Such pressure began in a mild way in 1960 after some speculative activity in the gold market occurred , based on dawning fears that the dollar might not for ever be ‘ as good as gold ’ ( i.e. fixed in terms of gold ) . |
| 11 | By dint of merit , I 'll the Lawrel snatch ; I 'll not for it 's reversion tamely Watch . |
| 12 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |
| 13 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 14 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 15 | Disoriented , she could not for an instant even locate her daughter . |
| 16 | For all that , I could not for some days quite bring myself to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |
| 17 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 18 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 19 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 20 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 21 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 22 | Yes , well , I have had a recent case , erm of within the ward that I visited , so I am aware of having the number of problems in the past , I am aware of the problems , but I could not for personal circumstances do the afternoon that day . |
| 23 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 24 | And Rosalba roused her heavy , hollow limbs and submitted to the tasks , finding in the repetitiousness of domestic labours a lulling routine that could still for a time the kind of sickness she had contracted . |
| 25 | We 'd also for those new pieces of the puzzle you 've given us today over erm Liechtenstein . |
| 26 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 27 | The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that . |
| 28 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 29 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 30 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |