Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 3 | If he then varies or strays from the agreement in an unsatisfactory way you are only asking for trouble if you do n't act promptly for full recovery . |
| 4 | The top two are connected but the bottom two are not ; but any small portion of either of the bottom two also appears somewhere in one of the top two , so any node whose inputs are restricted to some small region can not behave differently for connected and disconnected inputs . |
| 5 | Yes , I think whenever one makes judgment about therapy being better or worse you have to say er on what criteria and there are certainly certain criteria on which group therapy would do better for certain problems like us making feel people feel better if they had a symptom or problem which erm make them feel worse because , because they felt isolated from the community , so it means other people who have got the same problem makes you feel better erm and er certainly suggestion therapy can produce dramatic results especially in the short run . |
| 6 | Why , then , do they not do more for small business and look again at legislation on the late payment of debt ? |
| 7 | ‘ One thing I learnt in England : public opinion , the sum of private opinions , does matter , can matter often for good . ’ |
| 8 | Denmark has traded its Scandinavian independence for an ability to trade within the EC and should do well for innovative designs ; |
| 9 | Even when the soil is virtually dry , spadefoot toads can remain underground for prolonged periods by maintaining their blood concentration at the correct level . |
| 10 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 11 | ‘ A great part of the Bible is to show us that all creatures are in God 's hand , and that He will either make our afflictions work together for good , or remove them . |
| 12 | First , individuals do not work only for pecuniary rewards . |
| 13 | Roughly how much of mid-Wales is over 300 m high — mostly wildscape which the farmers can use only for rough grazing for sheep ? |
| 14 | Why not keep the old laws and the half-metre gap , then allow the touch judges to look for off-sides and crooked throws and let the ref look just for illegal play ? |
| 15 | The therapist should look also for other maladaptive behavioural coping strategies such as increasing consumption of alcohol , drugs , cigarettes , food , or prescribed medication . |
| 16 | Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for . |
| 17 | Of course , people do not work simply for economic rewards , and there may be other social and psychological losses on retirement ( though equally there may be gains ) . |
| 18 | Eat self-blanching celery as soon as possible as it does not keep well for long periods . |
| 19 | But 11 entries for novice chase and 17 for the handicap chase do n't augur well for big fields . |
| 20 | But do not look here for specific advice . |
| 21 | Many will sell only for hard currency and all are expensive . |
| 22 | It did not take long for moral earnestness to clash with secular utility . |
| 23 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 24 | On his arrival Jones received new , and even more congenial orders to use the Ranger ‘ In the manner you shall judge best for distressing the enemies of the United States ’ . |
| 25 | This restriction to particular ‘ niches ’ in the environment is the result of a partitioning out of competing species over a limited range of resources ; each comes to live in the portion of a habitat it can exploit best for reproductive purposes . |
| 26 | In such a team operation there will normally be a clear standard mandatory difference of responsibility but in practice what they actually do can overlap and overlap differently for different teams . |
| 27 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |
| 28 | Next B states , in London English , her attitude to all such propositions : " I do n't wan na go outside for fresh air , right " — and now switches to Creole to echo her own words , but more emphatically : not only would she not want to go , she will not : " I 'm not going outside ( ever ) for any fresh air " . |
| 29 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 30 | Make people pay more for rush-hour trips , using electronic scanners . |