Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to change because I think good actors do alter the way they look and it 's something I plan to work on for my career in the future . ’ |
| 2 | Although we had bucked the recessionary trend in the previous year , demand for carpets was even more depressed , and in a fiercely competitive market place , we all had to work harder for our share of the smaller ‘ cake ’ . |
| 3 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 4 | To achieve this goal teachers need to be academics in the broadest sense of the word ; not simply a graduate in a traditional discipline but someone who is able to use the richness of our cultural past and the opportunities offered by our multicultural present to challenge children 's thinking and , by so doing , to open up for them avenues of discovery . |
| 5 | The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted . |
| 6 | Laughing at your own silly mistakes can help to take away any embarrassment and the need to apologise constantly for your gaucheness without any loss of dignity or selfrespect . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 8 | Presentation and ease of use are the most obvious areas where a DOS application has to fight hard for its existence alongside the GUI opposition , and in this respect 1-2-3 release 3.4 breaks little new ground . |
| 9 | JANSHER KHAN and Susan Devoy , title favourites in the Hi-Tec British Open Championships , each had to fight hard for their place in today 's finals at Wembley . |
| 10 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 11 | And to rub salt into the wounds , we will have to pay more for our electricity in order to subsidise nuclear and deep mined coal . |
| 12 | It was an uncompromising little den which , in keeping with the rest of the house , stoutly refused to make up for its lack of charm . |
| 13 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
| 14 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 15 | This must help to make up for her disappointment in the Cowal Championships when , due to an error in the markings , she missed out on a fourth place medal . |
| 16 | Dyer was applauded by the diehard press to make up for his censure by the government . |
| 17 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 18 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |