Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 UN Commander Phillippe Morillon said his troops would begin preparations today for the mass evacuation .
2 She frowned slightly ; it would n't do to have letters like this arriving here , she would make arrangements today for a discreet postal address .
3 And that 's why we do n't make money on carriage forwards cos we do n't sell carriage forwards for the positive reasons , we say , well if they do n't want them send them back , or if they 're damaged send them back .
4 Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century .
5 One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates .
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