Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 2 | Some decide that computers have no place whatsoever , some regard computers as cheap and reliable " clerical " labour fit for nothing other than " payroll crunching " , others find a niche for computing in the successful management of the business . |
| 3 | Another woman , Virgo , marries Tycho , an astronomer , who has time for nothing lower than the stars and the planets . |
| 4 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 5 | Since the Common Market annually produces such vast quantities of wine fit for nothing better than compulsory distillation , it is puzzling why the authorities still require producers of Coteaux Champenois to churn out as much as one or two pieces of this liquid for every marc pressed . |
| 6 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 7 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 8 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 9 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 10 | For nothing much , apart from Mr Lamont 's replacement by Kenneth Clarke , has happened . |
| 11 | With so much specialised knowledge , which would qualify her for nothing much except a pilot 's certificate , with her wellingtons over which the mud of many tides had dried , she had the air of something aquatic , a demon from the depths , perhaps . |
| 12 | For nothing much . |
| 13 | ‘ Doos n't thou ever give it away for nothing o'butty , ’ she had said , urgently , in that soft Forest tongue . |
| 14 | ‘ Doos n't thou ever give it away for nothing o'butty . ’ |
| 15 | Mesh sizes were often as small as 1¾ or 1½ inches ( about 4 – 6 centimetres ) from knot to knot — poachers ' nets indeed , for nothing worthwhile could pass through . |
| 16 | Food must be bagged and boxed , and taken to the patient , for nothing nutritious will be otherwise provided . |
| 17 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 18 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 19 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 20 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 21 | The union is as yet unconvinced that BT 's intentions are to use the robots for nothing more than to make their members ' jobs ‘ more interesting ’ . |
| 22 | He wished for nothing more at that moment than to join his brother and be part of the scene during the heady days before and during the coronation . |
| 23 | I could wish for nothing more ( unless , of course , his daughter followed , bearing a Toshiba lap-top computer , and skipped down the hill to school ) . |
| 24 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 25 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 26 | It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 27 | It was to be a local public relations exercise , bought and paid for nothing more . |
| 28 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 29 | The death of Ecgberht and the emergence of a new king , Ealhmund , subsequently identified by a later Canterbury scribe ( ASC F , s.a. 784 ) as the father of Ecgberht ( ASC A , Preface ; s.a. 855 ) ; ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , king of the West Saxons ( 802–39 ) , was probably what led to this renewed involvement , for nothing more is heard of Ealhmund nor did any successor to him appear in Kent , even as subregulus . |
| 30 | I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you . |