Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
| 2 | It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved . |
| 3 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 4 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 5 | Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road . |
| 6 | Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time , and weather conditions remain favourable . |
| 7 | However , Waddington noted that " the SAP [ South African Police ] is an unaccountable police force " and that the " difficulties encountered " by his inquiry team " suggested [ that ] systems do not exist for either internal or external accountability " . |
| 8 | May I appeal for more sixth-form entries for the 14th International Physics Olympiad ? |
| 9 | Proposed mergers involving a projected turnover of under pounds 1,400 million could be examined by the Commission at the request of any state official , but the agreement said that under no circumstances could a merger qualify for both national and EC scrutiny at once . |
| 10 | We did n't wait for very long in the did we ? |
| 11 | But I ca n't wait for that long ! |
| 12 | The intermittency route to chaos was also inferred , with pure xenon in the laser tube , from a sequence in which a single frequency ( with its harmonics ) progressively broadened on increasing the discharge current , just as one would expect for increasingly frequent bursts of noise against a background of steady oscillation . |
| 13 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |
| 14 | That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight . |
| 15 | Goody claims to reject these distinctions as ethnocentric and suggests that we ‘ should look for more specific criteria for the differences ’ between these kinds of societies . |
| 16 | But , in an ideal world , one would look for more dangerous animalism than one gets from Charles Dance 's Coriolanus in order to sharpen the edge of political debate . |
| 17 | As with most forms of pricing we must look for more practical methods . |
| 18 | As with most forms of pricing we must look for more practical methods |
| 19 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 20 | ‘ Look for off-farm work ’ was usually identified by those who were already part-time farmers , meaning that they would look for more off-farm work . |
| 21 | The loss of key staff can be expensive in other ways too — their contracts may well provide for more costly redundancy provisions than for junior employees . |
| 22 | Erm Why did he work for so long ? |
| 23 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 24 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 25 | The program maintains standard and customisable glossaries and can search for commonly used words and phrases and offer the glossary 's translation . |
| 26 | CW intimated he wishes eventually to move to bar-coding of Library stock to facilitate loans , and the same technology will suffice for both Horticultural and Library purposes . |
| 27 | For most local history purposes a simple wordlist will suffice for both Old and Middle English — the dictionary for the latter being Stratmann 's Middle English Dictionary ( Oxford 1891 ) — and what now follows are words the author has found most useful in pursuing his studies . |
| 28 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 29 | As we have seen , this may apply for perfectly sound reasons to research where the determinand or matrix is especially exotic . |
| 30 | Faced with the crisis of inner city decay , for that was really the problem of mid-19th century Paris , many of today 's governments could wish for so favourable a conjuncture . |