Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 2 | ‘ Julie , whoever those men are , whoever this Farrell is , they want something badly enough to kill for it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's all right to ask for other people . |
| 4 | In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) . |
| 5 | Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it . |
| 6 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 7 | Furthermore , there was a danger that they would stay in service long enough to qualify for a retirement pension — an even more expensive proposition . |
| 8 | As I earned only enough to pay for my childminder my father paid my train fares . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman has the opportunity of warning us all not to speak for too long , because another important measure , concerning the civil rights of disabled people , is to come before the House today . |
| 10 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When he had finished , and the Adams , too , had been loaded , the Collector settled down calmly to wait for the attack . |
| 13 | Britain 's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance . |
| 14 | Kenny was probably the most polished and was certainly the best full-back so far to play for Crystal Palace , and his distinguished career with us , Arsenal , QPR and England proves his quality . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 16 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 17 | The small dark eyes crinkled in their walnut bags ; the magnificent profusion of handlebar moustache , grown long ago to compensate for a balding pate , bristled with the start of a smile . |
| 18 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 19 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 20 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 21 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 22 | Roll out the fondant icing into a large round or square ( depending on the size and shape of the cake to be covered ) , about 10cm ( 4inches ) larger all round to allow for the sides . |
| 23 | As a physical presence , Lanegan is oddly compelling for a man who clings solemnly to the mic stand throughout , breaking off only occasionally to reach for a glass or perform his quaint little bop routine at the outset of ‘ Nearly Lost You ’ , another gast-flabbering newie . |
| 24 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 26 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 27 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 28 | However , it is surely necessary to agree also with Davies 's further observation that , to recognize the underlying force of such relatively informal and open modes of teaching is not necessarily to argue for a return to earlier more authoritative and intransitive modes . |
| 29 | It is not enough to weep for ourselves ; we have to be able to weep for others . |
| 30 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |