Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 2 | Since the end of last month it became illegal to burn off the stubble after harvest — that leaves farmers with the options of either ploughing it in or looking for alternative uses for it . |
| 3 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 4 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 5 | One night all these goods were secretly taken away and disappeared for good . |
| 6 | You 've got to tell them when you 're on and ask for sanitary towels . |
| 7 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 8 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 9 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 10 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |
| 11 | 6 After ½ mile turn left on path at T-junction through wood to rejoin old railway , on which turn left and follow for short distance , crossing small river by low walled bridge . |
| 12 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 13 | It 's an invigorating concept because it involves going out and searching for new stories , new voices , new views , the articulate in the community as well as those who have no voice . |
| 14 | I 'm not going to chuck you out and go for vacant possession or anything , life 's too short for that . |
| 15 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 16 | Financial and administrative constraints permitting , the proposed more open and formal systems of careers guidance , support , and appraisal could achieve much especially if , as proposed , they were reinforced by explicit fairness in appointments procedures from preregistration level upwards and monitored for ethnic and gender neutrality under the auspices of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 17 | There can be no alternative now but to press for guaranteed and unrestricted verifications , backed up by tougher international penalties against violators and greater pressure on all nations to accede to the treaty . |
| 18 | Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C . |
| 19 | It is in line with the precedent of the timetable motion on the Local Government Finance Bill , which is generally held to have worked well and provided for effective consideration of the Bill . |
| 20 | Lass , you may bring your bag and baggage and come over here and live for good . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Very common nowadays and makes for flabby , colourless prose . |
| 22 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 23 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 24 | Although the programme finishes at the end of the month , head gardener Carole is still thinking ahead and planning for future displays . |
| 25 | one of these was the compensation pendulum , in which brass and steel are used to move freely and compensate for different co-efficients of expansion . |