Example sentences of "for do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 2 | They do not then relay all the information to the passengers , for to do so would serve no useful purpose . |
| 3 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 4 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |
| 5 | For to do so would suggest that salvation lay with the appointment of Arthur Scargill to the TCCB . |
| 6 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 7 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 8 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 9 | There is not even , as we have heard , any opportunity to make a realistic and meaningful statement in public , not even in the House , for to do so might affect the outcome of the trial . |
| 10 | And others are cheered for doing well despite personal problems . |
| 11 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 12 | Will the Minister pledge total support for the Nottingham city technology college for doing just what our young people and the nation need ? |
| 13 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 14 | That 's a funny body for doing on . |
| 15 | That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work . |
| 16 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 17 | Our current performance is at around the Group average , and I have no doubt not only of our ability to keep this up , but of our potential for doing even better in the longer term on any standard of assessment . |
| 18 | I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage . |
| 19 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 20 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 21 | A 1991 report by the province 's auditor-general lambasted government foresters for doing little to ensure that logging companies met British Columbia 's standards — which are far more lax than those employed by the United States Forest Service just south of the border . |
| 22 | Marilyn Brown is also critical of the Foreign Office , for doing little to assist her son . |
| 23 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 24 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |
| 25 | You will find , unless there are very good reasons for doing otherwise , that here you will find it difficult to manage if you have as many as eight suspects , for no longer can your suspects be mere plaster figures . |
| 26 | Unless there are good and generally agreed reasons for doing otherwise , the rule which readily minimises conflict is simply to decrease each department 's budget by the same percentage . |
| 27 | But if you use the function who is responsible for doing then you can often find out who . |
| 28 | ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … . |
| 29 | He earned his position by forcing Fox head Steve Roth to give him the lead in the much-touted The Good Son and $8 million in return for doing Home Alone 2 . |
| 30 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |