Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 2 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 3 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 5 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 6 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 7 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 8 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 9 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 10 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 11 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 12 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 13 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 14 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 15 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 16 | Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation . |
| 17 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 18 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 19 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 20 | Some policies will also include eventualities like job loss or having to stay home to care for a sick relative . |
| 21 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |
| 22 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 23 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 24 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 25 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |
| 26 | Some go on to study for a higher degree , and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering . |
| 27 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 28 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 29 | Those setting out to look for a new home after April 4 will have the questionable benefit of the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 , which comes into force on that day . |
| 30 | I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker . |