Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is such a cohesive , well-oiled unit that the band rarely has to call for outside assistance . |
| 2 | If the driver suddenly needs to call for extra revs , he can overrule the settings at any time by pushing the foot pedal . |
| 3 | Giving more than a passing nod to the Amiga classic Sensible Soccer , Graeme Souness International Soccer is played on a vertically scrolling pitch viewed more or less from above , but with just enough tilt to allow for detailed player graphics instead of a bird's-eye head-and-shoulders shot . |
| 4 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 5 | The 1.5kg device has a large enough handle to grip for long periods . |
| 6 | Advice was given by Mr Fallon on how best to proceed to cater for increased demand for places at both St Bede 's and St Augustine 's schools , but it was not followed presumably for political or administration reasons . |
| 7 | Walters knows well enough not to promise to deliver for general practitioners . |
| 8 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 9 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 10 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 11 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 12 | Black psychiatric nurses and doctors are not permitted to care for white patients ( according to a 1984 study ) while there were no psychiatrists of ‘ African ’ descent in 1982 . |
| 13 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 14 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 15 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 16 | We do not have to look for conventional biological survival values of traits like religion , music , and ritual dancing , though these may also be present . |
| 17 | Fife also revealed that tax-payers would not have to pay for uncollected poll tax arrears , believed to stand at up to £35 million . |
| 18 | He believes that the deterrent effect , which no longer seems to exist for young people , should be reinstated . |
| 19 | If tax-relief-induced donations did not go to pay for mainline social service functions and elected representatives still felt it necessary to continue to provide them , they would have a lower tax base on which to raise the revenue . |
| 20 | The University does not undertake to pay for special materials , equipment , etc. required by a student in the course of research . |
| 21 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 22 | STATE schools are being forced to turn away children whose parents can no longer afford to pay for private education . |
| 23 | However , candidates from overseas are not normally allowed to enrol for part-time study . |
| 24 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 25 | You can place orders on the spot with publishers you know , and it does not harm to ask for extra trade fair discount ! |
| 26 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 27 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |
| 28 | People are not advised to aim for maximum fuel savings , but to concentrate on taking what is readily achievable without affecting efficiency . |
| 29 | It begins with Banking and Finance , Advertising and the Promotion Industry and Marketing , and booksellers no longer have to apologise for ancient and/or American ESP special English titles . |
| 30 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |