Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If everything continues to go well , she will stay for no more than seven days . ’
2 It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session .
3 References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search .
4 In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment .
5 If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ?
6 Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically .
7 I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you .
8 Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process .
9 The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ .
10 If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ .
11 After that , Dinah should disappear for a little ; they must not grow accustomed to her , and he himself had a leading part waiting which demanded full passions ; that of Tamburlaine .
12 But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach .
13 Only when it needs a custom development platform should an organisation opt for the really new stuff .
14 China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights .
15 It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end .
16 If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet .
17 HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body .
18 In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position .
19 We would certainly strive for the most equitable route .
20 They did n't speak for a very long time .
21 By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes .
22 The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time .
23 A pea would do for a rather green skull for the skeleton .
24 They 'll send for the least Trifle to the other end of a long Street to one of their own Crew , when the very next Neighbour , a Church-man , has it to sell " .
25 Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool .
26 We can not now implement the whole of that programme and must look for a more concessive approach , capable of accommodating the competing strengths of individualism .
27 In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells .
28 Secondly , institutional changes have also been introduced which hopefully will provide for a more cooperative relationship between the Council of Ministers and the EP .
29 I mean unless you actually do go and work for a specifically religious charity ,
30 The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet .
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