Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 2 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 3 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 4 | Occasionally a reservation is received for an older work missed ( or turned down ) when originally published . |
| 5 | One person leading into another can make for a smoother flow and a more efficient use of time . |
| 6 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 7 | Perchance , as he sees it , such will make for a stronger monarchy . ’ |
| 8 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 9 | Mr Ingram drives a company car , so the banding changes making that more expensive will probably persuade him to go for a smaller model . |
| 10 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 11 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 12 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 13 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 14 | The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats , allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates . |
| 15 | The band of fluctuation either side of the new parities was widened from 1 per cent to 2.25 per cent , thus allowing for a larger margin of exchange rate fluctuation before official intervention was required . |
| 16 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 17 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 18 | If , for example , all you wanted to do was to reduce the sleeve length , you could ( provided an alternative length was given ) use a shorter length given for a smaller size . |
| 19 | Among attractions of a combined survey is the economy of mobilising for a larger survey with fewer turns for the ship . |
| 20 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 21 | Many were also planning to change their contracts : 62 per cent were planning to cease a contract that existed the previous year ; 71 per cent to contract with a new provider ; 50 per cent to reduce volume more than 10 per cent with an existing provider and 78 per cent to contract for a greater volume of care per pound spent . |
| 22 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 23 | Many leading manufacturers now have women 's models in their ranges with designs catering for the shorter back length , wider hips and more pronounced bottom . |
| 24 | Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours . |
| 25 | The TV companies that own ITN are also clamouring for a higher bid . |
| 26 | This is because wines and beers account for a greater proportion ( 76% ) of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 27 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 28 | The syndrome of imperfections that make up " maternal depletion " coupled usually with lower educational level and larger family size evidently account for the lower survival chances of infants and young children whose mothers were beyond age 39 at the birth . |
| 29 | The Gold Ninety Account is a very high interest ninety day notice account for the longer term investor . |
| 30 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |