Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament , recognising the danger — perhaps more to respect for the law than to press freedom — changed the law , so that now the very fact of a conviction is deemed to be conclusive evidence of its correctness . |
| 2 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Lawson is not solely to blame for the uncertainty and muddle . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you would do well to rest for the night and journey on by daybreak , ’ said the Oak . |
| 5 | In Geneva , Europe 's rich will congregate tomorrow to bid for the jewellery and precious objects belonging to the Princess of Thurn und Taxis of Bavaria . |
| 6 | Actors go there to rest for the summer and then try to get work for the autumn when the little theatres open again . |
| 7 | Research has invariably failed to recognize this and as a consequence failed to approach its task in an explicitly neutral and scientific way , i.e. to account for the nature and incidence of particular forms of adult/child interactions and their consequences . |