Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 2 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 3 | I hope you will choose a different path — to go forward , not back ; to go for the best , knowing that Britain can be the best and do it best . |
| 4 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 5 | Not only do you need to know where to go for the best prices , but you need information on when shops open and how to get there . |
| 6 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 7 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 8 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 9 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 10 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 11 | The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out . |
| 12 | Brussels had framed the legislation under a section of the Treaty of Rome which authorises the Commission to aim for the highest possible levels of environmental protection and allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers when member states are unable to agree . |
| 13 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 14 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 15 | XVT also rejects the claim that such ‘ generic ’ windowing systems have to opt for the lowest common denominator approach in choosing a subset of common functionality between all the windowing systems . |
| 16 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 17 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 18 | Yes , it had not been easy knowing what to do for the best . |
| 19 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 20 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 21 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |
| 22 | She became depressed at not knowing what to do for the best , and at leading the life of a whore . |
| 23 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 24 | Just vanish , leaving her not knowing what to do for the best . |
| 25 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 26 | She 'll tell me , all right , and then we can go from there and decide what to do for the best . |
| 27 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 28 | And what to do for the best . |
| 29 | I said I du n no what to do for the best so , I just leave things the way they are and er hopefully that er you get some warm days where you need n't have the fire on , so you do n't have fumes you know |
| 30 | Cheltenham on Gold Cup day glitters … the best in the land are there to race for the richest prize … we 've three questions to ask you in our competition … first is about jockeys … |