Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |
| 2 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 3 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |
| 4 | His only possibility is to tap the latent anger , which he has to keep suppressed for the most part , and the social depression that would enable him and his peers to speak out from their own consciousness in order that a mature and civilized level of relationship can be attained between them and others . |
| 5 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 6 | The officials had opted for the more prestigious Royal Mail charge , rather than the more tenuous one of murder of the post-boy . |
| 7 | Modern attempts to classify political regimes have begun for the most part from some general theory of society , and as I have indicated they were strongly influenced at the outset ( and again in recent decades ) by conceptions of social evolution or development . |