Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 32 | Likewise , people from industry come to the department to work for short periods . |
| 33 | The less organised often resented the superior efficiency and greater discipline ( or docility ) , and the readiness to work for lower wages , of these peasants . |
| 34 | The trade unions fear that wage demands may have to be lowered because of the refugees ' greater flexibility and readiness to work for less money . |
| 35 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 36 | In fact , in an attempt to compensate for this , the nurses would paint nail varnish on her toe-nails and put bows in her hair . |
| 37 | ‘ Although we have no mandate to talk for Scottish fishermen we are quite convinced that they too would want to continue exporting large amounts of herring to your country . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Having read your manifesto I feel bound to add that your racist policies , your opposition to aid for third world countries , and your proposals for the quarantining of those carry the AIDS virus are deeply repugnant to the Christian consciousness . ’ |
| 39 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 40 | On July 23 the Soviet Union made public its intention to apply for full membership of the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 41 | And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man . |
| 42 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 43 | Although she had never had any secretarial training , she had the nerve to apply for one of the most eagerly sought-after positions in Europe . |
| 44 | For example , in an industry with a few large and many small firms , the large firms may support a trade association to lobby for industry-wide benefits because they get large benefits from it , even though the small firms also benefit from its success without joining . |
| 45 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 46 | And I 'm not so sure that portrait is the best possible erm medium to use , or the best possible photograph to use for this type of er trick . |
| 47 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 48 | The level of rent to qualify for full Housing Benefit subsidy will be determined according to locally operating market forces . |
| 49 | And I 've got a chapter to read for American Studies . |
| 50 | But , more than that , the People 's Plan is an attempt to allow for incremental growth and change . |
| 51 | Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only . |
| 52 | These factors along with demographic trends and recent events in Eastern Europe are likely to have more influence on labour mobility than the legislation programme to allow for free movement of labour . |
| 53 | This is always dangerous because at that moment the glider has insufficient speed to allow for safe recovery and landing . |
| 54 | It is possible to modify these various statements of the no-arbitrage condition to allow for continuous compounding . |
| 55 | His anthropological attempt to account for spatial variations in the nature of politics is countered by others who associate the origins of political variations across the earth 's surface with variations within the sphere of production ( notably with the core-periphery structure of the capitalist world-economy : Johnston , 1984d , 1989d ; Taylor , 1989 ) . |
| 56 | Even where there is some attempt to account for female/male differences in deviant behaviour , the explanation may simply resort to the simplistic notion that sex roles are generally differentiated . |
| 57 | In an attempt to account for some of the peculiarities of the sternopleural region , Ferris ( 1940 , etc. ) has argued that the greater part of the ventral side of the thorax of some insects is derived from pleural structures , but further critical study of his theory is necessary . |
| 58 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 59 | Museums should be rewarding learning environments , and any attempt to settle for mass popularity alone is to sell museums short . |
| 60 | ( iii ) Explain how van der Waals changed the ideal gas equation to allow for such deviations . |