Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings . |
| 2 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
| 3 | Horse riding : Available every day , as well as horse drawn carriage rides for the less energetic ! |
| 4 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 5 | All these findings on the relationship between housing and unemployment are not substantially altered by allowing for the generally lower social status — and therefore higher risk of unemployment — among local authority tenants as both this study and the work of a number of other researchers has shown ( McCormick , 1983 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1987 ; Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ; an extended bibliography of the general topic of housing and labour market interactions is given in Munro , 1986 ; Labour Force Survey 1983 and 1984 , 1986 , Table 6.6 ; Sullivan and Falkingham , forthcoming , Tables 1 , 2 ) . |
| 6 | Even allowing for the traditionally light-hearted Italian attitude toward obtaining government money , Italy 's wolves number at best only about 150 , including puppies . |
| 7 | Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ? |
| 8 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 9 | After allowing for the much higher non-attendance rate in controls , the annual rate of eye examination per patient and the number of patients referred to a hospital ophthalmic clinic were comparable in the two groups . |
| 10 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 11 | To search for the most appropriate policy-tools which will enable the government to achieve its economic objectives more satisfactorily . |
| 12 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 13 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 14 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 15 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 16 | Companies such as Home Care and Nursing Services , Care Concern and Care Services provide home helps , nursing auxiliaries and care attendants , meals cooked in the home and home nursing for the terminally ill . |
| 17 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 19 | He 's always fallen for the really pretty ones , she said . |
| 20 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 21 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 22 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 23 | And Clara saw that Mrs Hanney 's ignominy was complete , for this programme , the name of which her mother so evidently did not forget , was considered by her mother to be the very lowest form of entertainment available , designed for the exceptionally stupid and depraved . |
| 24 | Shop bought cosmetics tend to be designed for the more common skin types and colourings — specialist cosmetics are difficult to find , and if they do exist , are usually expensive . |
| 25 | The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal . |
| 26 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 27 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 28 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 29 | By not considering the results of case management practice and research in greater depth and learning more about the value it has for the most needy clients of the health and welfare system , we are in danger of failing to learn the lessons which others have learned , and of having to re-live their mistakes . |
| 30 | The " experience of men of our race and culture " in fact stands for the quite narrow culture of which the report itself forms a part . |