Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 2 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 3 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 4 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 5 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 6 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 7 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 8 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 9 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 10 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 11 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 12 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 13 | Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation . |
| 14 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 15 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 16 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 17 | Some policies will also include eventualities like job loss or having to stay home to care for a sick relative . |
| 18 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 19 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 20 | Some go on to study for a higher degree , and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering . |
| 21 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 22 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 23 | Those setting out to look for a new home after April 4 will have the questionable benefit of the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 , which comes into force on that day . |
| 24 | I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker . |
| 25 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 26 | Freya was facing the wrong way in the womb but her mother says she was n't allowed even to try for a natural birth . |
| 27 | The small dark eyes crinkled in their walnut bags ; the magnificent profusion of handlebar moustache , grown long ago to compensate for a balding pate , bristled with the start of a smile . |
| 28 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 29 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 30 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |