Example sentences of "[verb] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 2 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 3 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 4 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 5 | New auction records for Malcolm Morley and Julian Schnabel compensate for generally low prices |
| 6 | In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities . |
| 7 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 8 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 9 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 10 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 11 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 12 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 13 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 14 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 15 | This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures . |
| 16 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 17 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 18 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 19 | It 's generally easier to plan for entirely new pipework , with the existing runs simply capped off and left in their present place . |
| 20 | But Mr Coleman offered a glint of hope for Mr Bates , adding : ‘ This policy on ground-sharing was formed for very good reasons . |
| 21 | Four groups will be sampled : adults in private households ; adults with psychosis living in private households ; adults in institutions , catering for mentally ill people ; and adults in other institutions , mainly hostels for homeless people sleeping rough . |
| 22 | Coalport Minerva and Mason 's Ironstone are specialist units catering for very particular types of produce and both are important to the Group 's strategy of developing its valuable brands . |
| 23 | Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road . |
| 24 | Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time , and weather conditions remain favourable . |
| 25 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 26 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 27 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 28 | Departmental Visiting Days are divided into two groups which are intended for rather different purposes : |
| 29 | On Jan. 19 , a further report in the UK press quoted " a senior US State Department official " and other experts to the effect that satellite pictures might have been misinterpreted and that the plant might indeed be intended for merely civilian uses . |
| 30 | The truly personal diary , intended for purely personal perusal , is a rare thing . |