Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 4 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 5 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 6 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 7 | in the pool there was a win in the Welsh Championships for Karen Rake of the Maxwell Club in Aylesbury … that was the good news … the bad news her time of 34.48 was n't good enough to qualify for the European Championships |
| 8 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 9 | This rapid production of InsP 3 is fast enough to account for the odorant-induced generator potentials which appear after a latency of 100–200ms . |
| 10 | In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) . |
| 11 | These stars are both luminous enough and hot enough to account for the total luminosity within 5pc of the nucleus , estimated to be 0.5–2.0x10 7 , L and ; ( refs 67 , 68 ) . |
| 12 | Sieving of this order of simplicity is not , on its own , enough to account for the massive amounts of nonrandom order that we see in living things . |
| 13 | Nor were the levels of resources available enough to pay for the increased skills needed for the more complex requirements of local administration . |
| 14 | If there are special political reasons then their use is justified to the extent that it enables individuals better to act for the ordinary reasons which apply to them . |
| 15 | The event starts at 11.15 a.m. on May 3rd but participants should arrive at 11 o'clock to prepare for the three-mile trail . |
| 16 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 17 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 18 | Because students are usually taught four-part harmony , and there are four conventional voices ( soprano , alto , tenor , and bass ) , they tend always to write for the conventional four-part mixed choir , thus ignoring the existence of the most common voices of all ( mezzo soprano and baritone ) . |
| 19 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 20 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 21 | and then we use this method to then go a stage further to prepare for the second presentation . |
| 22 | She will run in another 5K road race in Carlsbad , California on Sunday : ‘ It should be a cracking race , judging by the field , ’ said Boyle , before returning home to prepare for the outdoor season . |
| 23 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 24 | The traffic is steadily building up , both as a day trip or weekend outing , but also to cater for the increasing number of second homes in the north of France within easy motoring of the airport , whose car park is full of Jersey , Guernsey and GB-plated cars . |
| 25 | Even though the Irish need a point in Valetta to clinch their first appearance in the finals , Charlton has agreed for Galvin to stay behind to play for the Second Division side in their Littlewoods Cup third-round second replay at Bolton . |
| 26 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 27 | The money left over is unlikely even to provide for the current training budget to keep pace with inflation . |
| 28 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 29 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 30 | Kingsley says he 's not sure whether the hunger is there to win for the second year . |