Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 2 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 3 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 4 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 5 | If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household . |
| 6 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 7 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 8 | In the case of franchises and licences the business is not transferred by the vendor and the vendor will normally have to arrange for a new licence or franchise to be granted to the purchaser by the licensor or franchisor on the surrender of the vendor 's licence or franchise . |
| 9 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 10 | Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate . |
| 11 | In the United States cities already have to argue for a notional amount to compensate for such under-recording : the same will probably have to happen in Britain . |
| 12 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 13 | Opportunities exist to push for new contracts within the same company , so individuals do not always have to leave for a new challenge . |
| 14 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 15 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 16 | Rutger here has gone for a tight , hard , back pickup sound ideally suited to the staccato style he uses , and note the contrast between the sparse verse and much busier chorus patterns . |
| 17 | Wright could n't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 29th birthday today . |
| 18 | I could n't have asked for a better family ! |
| 19 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 20 | For a teaching museum we could n't have hoped for a better gift . |
| 21 | ‘ We could n't have hoped for a better first few weeks of the tour . |
| 22 | The good news is that he charges in 15-minute slots of £5.86 , so you do n't have to pay for a whole hour if he 's only worked five minutes of it . |
| 23 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
| 24 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 25 | In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body . |
| 26 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 27 | But Allem would certainly have settled for a 69 before he went out . |
| 28 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |