Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] 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 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 3 | A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency , to put every penny of your subscription to good use . |
| 4 | It will perhaps ask for further information ’ said Dovaston . |
| 5 | Having the same financial people on either side does n't just make for faster communication . |
| 6 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 7 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 8 | You need not look for greater injuries than these . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You surely can not hope for better ? ’ |
| 10 | We could not wish for greater clarity . |
| 11 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 12 | Philip Healey , Acquisitions Monthly editor , said UK companies do not go for smaller acquisitions out of choice . |
| 13 | The White House said that the programme , to be announced tomorrow in a speech to a joint session of Congress , would also include a stab at controlling spiralling health care costs , but that Mr Clinton would not ask for higher contributions from beneficiaries of the Medicare programme , which provides health care for the elderly . |
| 14 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 15 | However , the structure and design of houses are very important , and if feminists do not argue for better standards , women will be subjected to working in rotten conditions , bearing the brunt of the cuts in housing expenditure , greater costs of heating , more accidents in the home and endless other problems . |
| 16 | This system can also work for older teenagers , but if you are over sixteen you are not entitled to free tutoring . |
| 17 | If she economized , and perhaps moved in with William , she could probably last for longer . |
| 18 | One surely could n't hope for greater understanding . ’ |
| 19 | Be brief and do n't talk for longer than is necessary — remember , the caller is paying for the call . |
| 20 | In horsy terms , that means that if you do n't ask for canter in exactly the way he 's been taught , he just carries on trotting round wondering what you meant . |
| 21 | Young men do sometimes fall for older women , ’ she said . |
| 22 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 23 | Furthermore , he could leave the manor if he so wished , and could therefore negotiate for better terms from the lord by threatening to go if the latter refused concessions ( 79 , p.31 ) . |
| 24 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 25 | Variations in such practices would therefore account for later behaviour . |