Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 2 | The intelligentsia came to feel responsible for the Russian economy . |
| 3 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 4 | It was beginning to look ominous for the Light Blues , as the final bend favoured Oxford . |
| 5 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 6 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 7 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 8 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 9 | Palmerston replied that he was glad to have the assurance of ‘ trained men of science and judgement ’ , and although he felt that Gothic might be suitable in the country , he was determined to have Italian for the present purpose . |
| 10 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 11 | Now we have to get ready for the New Year . |