Example sentences of "[adj] to [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they 're a tad more composed tonight , not averse to pausing for breath on occasion . |
| 2 | Worst of all , the Sûreté was not averse to operating for ‘ reasons of state ’ beyond the terms of the law itself and tended to bring the legal and judicial system of the French administration into disrepute as hardly preferable to the arbitrary Chinese system which it had supplanted . |
| 3 | Yeah , but I mean , working for a mate , is different to working for a firm . |
| 4 | For years this was carried out by the " vanners " ; men effecting a separation on special vanning shovels using a method perhaps best described as somewhat akin to panning for gold . |
| 5 | Of necessity , he became accustomed to writing for serialisation , and familiar with the sequence of publication essential in order to protect an author 's interests at home and abroad in the days before an international copyright agreement . |
| 6 | Biologists , as we have seen , are accustomed to looking for advantages at the gene level ( or the individual , the group , or the species level according to taste ) . |
| 7 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 8 | When he 'd lived Outside , before the Store , he 'd got accustomed to going for days without food and then , when food did turn up , eating until he was greasy to the eyebrows . |
| 9 | A protein-rich diet prior to spawning for cock fish is also desirable to promote virility and success of spawning . |
| 10 | It 's one of Metallica 's tour personnel talking at the band 's hotel , just prior to leaving for the night 's Wembley gig … |
| 11 | In early August the plan was for it to stop at Didcot for servicing on Friday , September 11 , prior to leaving for Bournemouth that evening . |
| 12 | unemployed prior to registering for the course ; |
| 13 | Some of the directors present were opposed to pressing for charters at that stage . |
| 14 | I saw once the head of a dear friend among the leaves and was less astonished at what first seemed an apparition than by his disentangling himself and in the flesh bidding his good morning , so accustomed was I to looking for my thoughts and news among the leaves . |
| 15 | These last aims are at the core of all Medau work and apply to all parts of a lesson , but the special atmosphere and rapport engendered in a breathing class are particularly conducive to striving for new levels of individual attainment . |
| 16 | Yesterday Yafano , 20 , of Vine Street , and Haytey , also 20 , of Preen Drive , pleaded guilty to digging for badgers . |
| 17 | With over 100 individual meeting rooms available on campus , we are used to accommodating for as few as 20 or as many as 1,000 delegates . |
| 18 | She is a local farmer 's daughter and was quite used to cooking for her six brothers and one sister . |
| 19 | The commentators told people used to queuing for a bare minimum that the General-Secretary and the First Deputy Prime Minister had a choice of six different menus . |
| 20 | British customers have got used to looking for the date stamp on goods so that they can identify the ‘ life ’ of a product . |
| 21 | THE IDEA of preparing a budget for the building of a house is a daunting thought , especially to someone who is more used to budgeting for the family holiday . |
| 22 | But , as men used to fighting for power , both were well placed to explain how the computer does or does not redistribute that power . |
| 23 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 24 | He is very close to asking for a transfer . ’ |
| 25 | A HANDMADE Lonsdale skipping rope is standard issue for boxers and will dramatically improve fitness and stamina — skipping for ten minutes is equivalent to jogging for half an hour . |
| 26 | At the end of a book almost entirely devoted to arguing for a strong genetic component in the causes of crime , he turns his attention to the contemporary ‘ crime wave ’ and what should be done about it . |
| 27 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |