Example sentences of "[verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
| 2 | It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved . |
| 3 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 4 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 5 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 6 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 7 | New auction records for Malcolm Morley and Julian Schnabel compensate for generally low prices |
| 8 | In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities . |
| 9 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 10 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 11 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 12 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 13 | She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more . |
| 14 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 15 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 16 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 17 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 18 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 19 | This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures . |
| 20 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 21 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 22 | Regulations are given for both normal ( seminal and menstrual ) and abnormal , possibly malignant , discharges . |
| 23 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 24 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 25 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |
| 26 | It 's generally easier to plan for entirely new pipework , with the existing runs simply capped off and left in their present place . |
| 27 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 28 | But Mr Coleman offered a glint of hope for Mr Bates , adding : ‘ This policy on ground-sharing was formed for very good reasons . |
| 29 | Four groups will be sampled : adults in private households ; adults with psychosis living in private households ; adults in institutions , catering for mentally ill people ; and adults in other institutions , mainly hostels for homeless people sleeping rough . |
| 30 | Coalport Minerva and Mason 's Ironstone are specialist units catering for very particular types of produce and both are important to the Group 's strategy of developing its valuable brands . |