Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 2 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 3 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 4 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 5 | In ordinary aquarium sand or gravel it will merely survive for a few months . |
| 6 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 7 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 8 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 9 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 10 | One would obviously hope for a linear dependence of the A-measure on area . |
| 11 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 12 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 13 | That will not happen immediately or alternatively it will only happen for a short period of time . |
| 14 | If you hold a full Great Britain licence but are currently disqualified in GB you may only apply for a provisional licence . |
| 15 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 16 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 17 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 18 | Companies do not much care for the interventionist policies of Mitterrand 's government , including its decision to nationalise all the large IT companies . |
| 19 | If you are a person of fastidious intellectual taste you will not much care for the comic-strip account given in the preceding paragraph . |
| 20 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 21 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 22 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 23 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |
| 24 | ‘ Alex , ’ said the producer , ‘ could you just stay for a quick word ? ’ |
| 25 | Since cloned human TFIIA is not yet available , we used the yeast analogue , which can functionally substitute for the human factor in pol II transcription in vitro ( 17 , 24 ) . |
| 26 | Of course the possibility remains that the sites HS5A and 5B do fulfill an as yet unclear function and that the other hypersensitive sites still present in this construct may functionally substitute for the deleted sites , reflecting a level of redundancy in the NF-L regulatory sequences . |
| 27 | We can ask — what sort of day care will best provide for the individual needs of the sufferers ? |
| 28 | ‘ Could n't we just apply for a long-term permit for him now ? ’ |
| 29 | A source at Buckingham Palace said : ‘ Nothing will physically change for the young princes . |
| 30 | The renovation grants section must consult the local social services department , and will normally arrange for an occupational therapist to visit you to assess your needs . |