Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 2 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 3 | Below : The hard centres of such flowers as hellebores should be pressed separately for the best results . |
| 4 | There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years . |
| 5 | Just as zooming should be done only for a good reason , panning is also a camera move which should be used sparingly if it is not to become visually irritating . |
| 6 | Well that 's what you can spend now for a good one . |
| 7 | May we search consistently for the best in other people . |
| 8 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 9 | Each month we have a pair of Saucony shoes to give away for the best letter on a running issue . |
| 10 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 11 | Companies therefore began to compete strongly for the best staff , wooing them with better salaries , conditions of work and career development opportunities . |
| 12 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 13 | Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed . |
| 14 | The Agent has , therefore , decided to encourage Great Indian Peninsula railwaymen to take a greater interest in such matters by the institution of a competition under the rules of which first , second and third prizes of Rs. 150 , Rs. 100 and Rs. 50 respectively will be awarded annually for the best station platform gardens and premises . |
| 15 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 16 | 1.40 What adds additional force to this argument is that under the Rules of the Supreme Court writs can be renewed only for a good or sufficient reason ( see Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Barbrak Ltd , " The Myrto " ( No 3 ) [ 1987 ] AC 597 ) . |
| 17 | With the lever of the four-speed auto gearbox shifted manually for the best results , the Safrane sprints from rest to 60mph in 9.9secs , cover the quarter mile in 17.6 secs and completed the 30–70mph increment in 9.3secs . |
| 18 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ People come here for a good night out , the restaurant is always busy and we are opening a new betting shop at the track where punters will be able to place bets tax free . |
| 20 | But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . |
| 21 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 22 | This brought a lot of laughter and people on the rim of the crowd pushed forward for a better look , squeezing the inside circle until there was no room left for fighting , though Paddy had managed to free himself . |