Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 2 | The TSB 's new Family Bonus plan allows up to eight in a family to pool their nest eggs and so qualify for higher rates of interest . |
| 3 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 4 | In 1990 , many took advantage of the Government 's new Gift Aid scheme ( a scheme apparently designed for higher rate taxpayers who hate the nearly incomprehensible Deposited Covenant form ) . |
| 5 | A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency , to put every penny of your subscription to good use . |
| 6 | If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation . |
| 7 | Rear panel furniture is limited to a set of analogue outputs for connection to an amplifier input , and a coaxial digital output which might be better used for later upgrading via an outboard digital converter . |
| 8 | The bills had merely called for further federal studies : control was considered a state and local concern . |
| 9 | Commitment to the health service means constantly striving for better ways forward . |
| 10 | Considerable concern was expressed , for example by R. H. Tawney , about the numbers of boys going from school into unskilled jobs with little prospect of advancement , from which they might be dismissed when they became old enough to qualify for higher adult earnings . |
| 11 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 12 | I only go for older women . ’ |
| 13 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 14 | Martial acts might also be more dramatic or better recorded for wider public esteem . |
| 15 | It will perhaps ask for further information ’ said Dovaston . |
| 16 | Worldwide recession is obviously to blame for poorer attendance , as is unwillingness on the part of dealers to exhibit major pieces when clients are hesitant about buying . |
| 17 | But maybe this ideal state of inconstancy we advocate only makes for fitter participants in capitalism . |
| 18 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |
| 19 | Having the same financial people on either side does n't just make for faster communication . |
| 20 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 21 | One of the best starts for later work in public relations , and one which can sometimes prove a route into a job , is working for a charity , organization or event which needs publicity . |
| 22 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 23 | The case could start a trend : two other New Mexico pueblos are already pressing for stricter water standards along their stretches of the Rio Grande . |
| 24 | One justification often advanced for local government is the opportunity thus presented for wider sections of the population to become involved in political responsibilities than could be accommodated at a national level . |
| 25 | You need not look for greater injuries than these . ’ |
| 26 | This construction is normally used for stiffer mountain boots , and the middle layer is normally the hardest . |
| 27 | When syntactic information is not needed for further processing , it may be cleared from the short-term store . |
| 28 | ‘ You surely can not hope for better ? ’ |
| 29 | The close proximity of this junction to that between A71 and the link to Hermiston Village and Gogar Station Road created a ‘ staggered T ’ effect and due to the relatively high speed of traffic on the re-aligned A71 compared with the original flows through Hermiston Village , a section of this new A71 was widened locally and a central reserve created to form a short stretch of dual carriageway thus providing for safer turning movements within the junctions . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , The Prelude did not really command a wide readership until the end of the nineteenth century , when the image of the poet as an old man ( 'Daddy Wordsworth' ) was finally replaced for younger readers with the more appealing picture of the revolutionary poet of the 1790s . |