Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 2 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 3 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 4 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 5 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 6 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 7 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 8 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |
| 9 | The county court , often in the person of the chief clerk , will arrange for the debtor to attend for an oral examination as to his means , The debtor 's answers are recorded and signed , becoming the basis of a realistic payment order by instalments in many cases . |
| 10 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 11 | This mixing increases the tail rotor pitch to compensate for the increased torque when collective pitch is added , but in an autorotation landing there is no torque at all so the yaw effect is even more pronounced . |
| 12 | For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available . |
| 13 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 14 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 15 | People come in all shapes and sizes and rucksack makers often have to aim for the middle ground when deciding on specifications . |
| 16 | He 's got to apply for an extended licence so we can stay open an extra hour on August Bank Holiday , that 's all . |
| 17 | I had no conception of what it was like to play for an honest-to-god institution until Walter put me straight . |
| 18 | If you have another lucrative position lined up , that will be a good reason to press for an early resolution if you fear that once your ex-employer learns of it , he might be much less inclined to generosity . |
| 19 | The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder . |
| 20 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed . |
| 21 | The Law Society holds hearings in private but allows the defendant the right to opt for a public hearing if he or she so wishes ( the prosecution also has the right , but only in public interest cases ) . |
| 22 | The governments that result , either a minority party governing with the consent of other parties , or a coalition of two or more parties , tend to last for a shorter period than one-party governments but the difference disappears if reshuffles of ministerial posts within single-party governments are taken into account ( Blondel , 1990 , p. 271 ) . |
| 23 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |
| 24 | Many women are unable to qualify for a full pension because of periods spent out of the labour force or in part-time work while caring for children or disabled relatives . |
| 25 | There are different ways to control for a third factor when investigating a relationship between two variables . |
| 26 | As we saw in chapter 12 , there is another quite different intellectual reason for wanting to control for a third factor when assessing the relationship between two variables . |
| 27 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 28 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 29 | Removal of the need to pay for a junior barrister as well as a QC in a substantial number of legal aid cases . |
| 30 | Now in fairness it would n't be our responsibility to pay for a new engine if the vehicle had been drive on . |