Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 2 | As well as Dobags , Anatolia produces a wide range of village-standard items , which may be either traditional in appearance or designed specifically for the Western market , and some notable workshop items , particularly from hereke and , to a lesser degree , Kayseria . |
| 3 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 4 | Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers . |
| 5 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 6 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 7 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 8 | Its end , that is , the singular future that lies ahead for the collapsing object . |
| 9 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 10 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 11 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 12 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 13 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 14 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 15 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 16 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 17 | Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me . |
| 18 | Lady Grace bridal gowns from Sposa Bella Manufacturing Ltd are designed and made especially for the larger bride in sizes 18–30 . |
| 19 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 20 | In Levene v Pearcey [ 1976 ] Crim LR 63 , a taxi-driver falsely told his passenger that the route was blocked and charged more for the longer way . |
| 21 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 22 | As they finally leave the city and head out for the open road , Billy the Kid says , ‘ We made it , did n't we ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 24 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 25 | Mitchell is amongst those who argue against Firestone and hold out for the continuing relevance of Freud 's work . |
| 26 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 27 | And heavens knows , once launched it 's all too hard to turn back and look again for the missed trace . |
| 28 | Some universities now have deputy or pro vice chancellors , who chair major committees and stand in for the vice chancellor . |
| 29 | It was only when this war was settled , and England embarked on a period of forty years of almost unbroken peace , that settlement began in North America and in the West Indies , and that trade with India became regular and organized enough for the English to set up trading posts there . |
| 30 | Finding the right animal may involve tracking the herd for miles across steep and inhospitable terrain , and waiting patiently for the right opportunity . |