Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 2 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
| 3 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 4 | To search for the most appropriate policy-tools which will enable the government to achieve its economic objectives more satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 6 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 7 | Travel and feature writers from all over the world had stayed in Crystal Springs , going back to their desks to write for the Most part glowing reports . |
| 8 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 9 | In order to maximize the use of existing resources , the enforcement regime must impose heavy sanctions so as to compensate for the relatively low risk of detection and prosecution . |
| 10 | CPRW must urge a return to responsible planning to provide for the really needy while protecting the open countryside . |
| 11 | Sir Martin ( later Lord ) Charteris , who became the Queen 's private secretary in the seventies , had gone to work for the then Princess Elizabeth because his family were friends of the Lascelles . |
| 12 | Stan began to look for the even rarer amphibians . |
| 13 | The ASP rule-book asked the judges to look for the most radical manoeuvres in the most critical section of the wave ( that is , nearest the curl ) . |
| 14 | Whatever their own political persuasions , journalists tend to look for the most interesting outcome of any given set of circumstances . |
| 15 | But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director . |
| 16 | Much the same range of locations seems to prevail for the more romanized forms of housing . |
| 17 | With the golden share intact , the company is under no immediate pressure to negotiate with the likes of GM and Ford and is likely to press for the most advantageous terms available . |
| 18 | If you find that the shaping instructions do n't seem to work for machine knitting , then you need to opt for the EASILY KNITTED STITCH LAYOUT . |
| 19 | Forget , he says , the fact that the people ( I am desperately trying to avoid using the words ‘ Red Indian ’ and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism , Native American ) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals . |
| 20 | ‘ Then what are we to do for the best ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'll be as quick as I can and you 'll have to hope for the best until I get back . |
| 22 | The Fat Cats are also looking rather smug which leaves Charlie 's Angels , The Waster and Pen 's Plonkers to fight for the all important third and fourth positions . |
| 23 | If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells . |
| 24 | It turns out that there are generally not enough dislocations originally present in most crystals to account for the very extensive slip which can take place in a ductile material . |
| 25 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 26 | The DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 27 | The only justification for staying here is to live for the most fundamental programme of change . |
| 28 | However , the foundation needs to raise £1.8m. to pay for the specially designed building and its running costs for the first year . |
| 29 | Business people — manufacturers , farmers and traders expect to produce and sell more goods in the south , so making enough profit to pay for the more expensive land . |
| 30 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |