Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is an inevitable summer climax , a hot , dry border is much easier to plant for year-round interest than most other parts of the garden . |
| 2 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 3 | They believed , with some justice , that local authorities were better able to provide for variable local conditions than remote central authorities . |
| 4 | It will be appreciated that these decisions within English teaching , as they are seen as likely to affect pupils ' future working and leisure conditions , might be poignantly uncomfortable to resolve for working-class teachers . |
| 5 | in this country are not willing to pay for other people 's children |
| 6 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
| 7 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 8 | It was still possible to pay for private treatment in the health service , but for most people it was a case of having treatment " on the national health . " |
| 9 | Tom Bowhill Restorations in Cheltenham is thriving , despite the recession , proving that people are still willing to pay for true craftsmanship . |
| 10 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 11 | In these cases , magistrates are much more likely to convict for technical breaches of highly technical rules . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm more inclined to opt for placental abruption . |
| 13 | It tried to decrease independent expenditures of PACs by repealing existing tax credit , thus making it more efficient to look for small individual contributions and thereby reduce the power of the PACs . |
| 14 | Lymphocytotoxic antibodies have also been shown in Crohn 's disease probands and their healthy relatives but , as these antibodies react with lymphocytes from normal subjects with a wide range of HLA specificities , they are similarly unlikely to account for inherited differences of liability . |
| 15 | Religious instruction in most schools is not really conducive to respect for non-Christian religions . |
| 16 | On the strength of those assurances , the commission says it is now prepared to pay for initial design work at both schools , starting next month . |
| 17 | We found the machine was fairly comfortable to use for long periods , but the high body did make it slightly awkward to control in tight corners . |
| 18 | Within all the social services , but especially within education , it is often necessary to argue for increased access to the material resource of the service while simultaneously suggesting that there are aspects of the service , particularly the ideology transmitted by it , which one deplores ( see Sections I and IV ) . |
| 19 | They 're even prepared to come for free , if we let them mime the record . " |
| 20 | At a time when it is increasingly popular to search for complex explanations for continuing or increasing levels of unsafe sexual behaviour among gay and bisexual men the most obvious explanation — lack of continuing education about safer sex — must not be overlooked . |
| 21 | The softness of gold made it relatively easy to employ for ornamental purposes . |
| 22 | These paints are available in a number of natural and unnatural colours and while giving the pool a good waterproof finish , are generally considered to be rather expensive to contemplate for large expanses . |
| 23 | Suffolk-based Eastern Electricity , which last year made £157 million profit , has asked 1,700 workers aged over 50 to apply for early retirement . |
| 24 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |
| 25 | It was winter wonderland around St. Alban 's College when more than 80 keen enthusiasts arrived clad in warm woolies and boots for the Annual Hertfordshire Day Rally organised by Doreen Copas in February and guest teachers Vanessa Forbes and Chris Markham had risen very early to allow for possible hazards along their respective snowy cross-country journeys . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |
| 27 | A TRIAL SCHEME should be set up to assess the validity of a contingent legal aid fund to finance personal injury claims for those too well-off to qualify for legal aid but too poor to pay fees , the conference was told . |
| 28 | As we saw , democrats like Paine originally put forward representation as a means of adapting the democratic principle to societies , such as the United States , which were too large to allow for personal participation by all their citizens . |
| 29 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 30 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |