Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He thought that architects should design for the new life style which was to arise , and design " for service " , making economical and logical use of space and using mechanical devices in order to provide comfort and to make housework pleasant by lightening the time and effort spent doing it ( 1934 p 32 ) . |
2 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
3 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |
4 | Two years later , however , in a further White Paper , Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and Reform of the Rating System ( 1983 ) , the government recognized that wide consultation had failed to find any consensus for an alternative local tax , and conceded that rates should remain for the foreseeable future as the main source of local government revenue . |
5 | But , that niggle aside , London is where he will remain for the foreseeable future . |
6 | Although microfilm will remain for the foreseeable future by far the more acceptable medium of preservation , as a versatile aid to the scholar the computer image is far in advance . |
7 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
8 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
9 | I would make for the Federal Republic . ’ |
10 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
11 | With the Matisse exhibition just opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ( until 12 January ; see interview with the curator , John Elderfield , The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p. 8 ) , the discerning visitor should budget for the complete experience with the following : |
12 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
13 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
14 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
15 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
16 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
17 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
18 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
19 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
20 | Accept that it hurts , that every movement will hurt for the foreseeable future . |
21 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
22 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
23 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
24 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
25 | Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League . |
26 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
27 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
28 | The rest of the year I will prepare for the Open . |
29 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
30 | You ca n't answer for the other officers but you can answer for yourself . |