Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 2 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 3 | A GIRL of seven has become the youngest person ever to sue for sexual harassment . |
| 4 | by providing the threat of bankruptcy , spurring both the management and workforce on to strive for improved productivity and greater efficiency . |
| 5 | Within Whitehall , therefore , there was surprise and concern that evacuation should have revealed so many symptoms of inner-city poverty , but the reaction of officials to these revelations was to seek their cause in working-class mores rather than to swing round to support for increased State intervention to raise living standards . |
| 6 | She had had to wake her mother up to ask for sanitary pads , and her mother had grumbled . |