Example sentences of "go for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 2 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 3 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |
| 4 | How long she 's got to go for other one . |
| 5 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 6 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 7 | With the recession the local labour council has refused to go for new jobs and at the height of this , they sacked the man whose job it was to bring jobs to Swindon . |
| 8 | Erm it might be better to go for two squares is one engine and they 'll fit on okay . |
| 9 | It will be hard for us to be away from Andrew and Peter over Christmas and New Year but the boys have been really encouraging , telling us to go for all God has for us . |
| 10 | ‘ Father vould n't really vant him to go for all the summer . ’ |
| 11 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 12 | erm the Labour party decided to go for proportional representation . |
| 13 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 14 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 15 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 16 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 17 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 18 | This is obviously a strong incentive to go for long periods . |
| 19 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 20 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , this is probably the best way to go for that first circuit whether or not you have any previous model flying experience . |
| 22 | Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau ? |
| 23 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 24 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 25 | If you think that you 're more likely to keep the price of your house high by keeping blacks out , then you 'd be likely to go for that . |
| 26 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 27 | Erm so that 's a figure if you like you have have up here in your noodle and say I need to go for that anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ There was no way I was going to go for that . |
| 29 | No he do n't have to go for that |
| 30 | he does n't have to go for that . |