Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 2 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 3 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 4 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 5 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 6 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 7 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 8 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 10 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 11 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |
| 12 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |
| 13 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 14 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 15 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 16 | A : I 'd be surprised if you do have a virus , but the only way to find out for sure is to use some reputable anti-virus software to examine your hard disk — F-PROT is very good and is public domain to individual , non-corporate users . |
| 17 | In most industrial countries these were recruited from marginal and footloose men , ready to work hard for good pay in bad conditions and to drink or gamble away their pay equally hard , with little thought for the future . |
| 18 | And for the lunatic fringe of the skinhead movement the swastika was clearly meant to stand again for Nazi ( National Socialist ) . |
| 19 | Accordingly , adjustment via the exchange rate was not able to compensate adequately for long-term changes in competitive conditions . |
| 20 | ‘ Forty-four per cent of the appointees are women — a very high figure for such posts — and their success should encourage even more to come forward for future appointments . ’ |
| 21 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |
| 22 | Tributes have continued to pour in for British Team Manager Les Jones , who died after the European Indoor Championships in Genoa . |
| 23 | Now I 'm going to look properly for loose stones . |
| 24 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 25 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | Officials warned to look out for banned runner |
| 27 | This allows just over a year to look out for possible candidates and suitable premises ; with regard to the latter , teachers are asked to look out for centrally situated schools with a good hall and piano , close to mainline travel facilities . |
| 28 | Instructors and senior pilots have a big responsibility to pass on their experience and knowledge and to look out for poor airmanship and flying techniques in others which could lead to mishaps in the future . |
| 29 | In Rannie v Irvine ( 1844 ) 7 Man & G 969 Tindal CJ said " if the contract is reasonable at the time it is entered into , we are not bound to look out for improbable and extravangant contingencies in order to make it void " . |
| 30 | Despite talk of an IRA ceasefire the public is still urged to look out for suspicious objects |