Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 2 | Then , she shared the prize for a novel , Wmffra , but this year wins outright for Tisio Tshipsan ? a novel aimed at the 9–12 age group , published at £2.50 by Gwasg Gomer . |
| 3 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 4 | The GTP was given land grants only for its line from Lake Superior Junction on the main line to Fort William on Lake Superior ( a distance of 188 miles ) . |
| 5 | There is little need for directions : a much-trodden path goes upstream for two miles to Thornton Force , there crossing open ground to Beezley Farm for the return alongside the eastern stream . |
| 6 | To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling . |
| 7 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 8 | Likes and dislikes apart , the inheritance which matters most for our thinking at this stage is more to do with what has fashioned our inner responses , especially the responses which cause us discomfort , anger , anxiety or conflict . |
| 9 | It cares little for social conventions , either . |
| 10 | She cares little for appearance and does not abide by the usual social rules . |
| 11 | But my Mum , a reasonable representative of that vital retiree market we all hear about , cares little for brands : she worries about her tax form being opaque . |
| 12 | The Borough , willing enough to disparage and hunt down Grimes , cares little for the fate of his apprentices , though Crabbe is never as explicit as Slater is in the libretto . |
| 13 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 14 | But do n't think Taormina lives only for its past — around every corner there are stylish shops , fine restaurants and piazzas crowded with cafés . |
| 15 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 16 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 17 | This is the exclusive preserve of the cave explorer who cares less for personal discomfort . |
| 18 | When recruiting , the Profitboss looks only for potential profit contribution , for profit-seeking attitudes and ability . |
| 19 | Mah Rana will design your wedding or engagement rings especially for you from around £95 . |
| 20 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 21 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 22 | This predication was confirmed although Gur and Gur ( 1977 ) believe that this relation holds only for right handed , left eye dominant males . |
| 23 | He writes only for PFK and the Sunday Sport — and acquired most of his fishkeeping knowledge while flying a bomber to the moon . |
| 24 | One such case of this node would be a readerly conception of a cynical author , perhaps , one who writes only for financial return or with disinterest or contempt for his or her readers . |
| 25 | GRAHAM TAYLOR searches desperately for someone to get a grip of England 's midfield and you wonder if it is too late — at 28 — for Stewart Robson . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sunday , Channel 4 , 9.00pm THE LAST order bell rings tonight for Cheers … but will there also be wedding bells ringing for Sam and Diane ? |
| 28 | By caring for his own health the Profitboss cares best for the company , its people and the profits they make . |
| 29 | He writes expletively for PFK and welcomes the chance to share his huge experience with our readers . |
| 30 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |