Example sentences of "settle for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original biological positivists mostly settled for Garofalo 's concept of ‘ natural crime ’ — ‘ an act that offends the moral sentiments of pity and probity in a community ’ . |
| 2 | The organizers of the exhibition wanted a Boston Tacker to stand in the foyer to tie in with the theme of the seventy fifth anniversary of the B U locating however , locating the complete model has proved something of a headache like the Model T Ford , the Boston Tacker was always very common but is now something of a rarity and the branch had finally settled for head to be borrowed from C and J Clarke , shoe machi , museum in Street , Somerset . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc is going to have to restate quarterly earnings to take account of settlements of two shareholder class actions totalling $30m in damages against the company — the one related to fiscal fourth-quarter results from 1989 , was settled for $25m , the other one , from the 1991 fiscal first quarter was settled for $5m . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc is going to have to restate quarterly earnings to take account of settlements of two shareholder class actions totalling $30m in damages against the company — the one related to fiscal fourth-quarter results from 1989 , was settled for $25m , the other one , from the 1991 fiscal first quarter was settled for $5m . |
| 5 | The Federation of Miners , Metalworkers and Steelworkers abandoned a 229 per cent basic wage claim and settled for Mineroperu 's offer of a 45 per cent increase with minor benefits . |
| 6 | The Poles eventually settled for territory far short of their initial ambitions . |
| 7 | Clients settled for amounts they did n't have . |
| 8 | When Reginald Maudling brought actions against Granada Television and " The Observer " for similar libels , " The Observer " settled for £15,000 . |
| 9 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |
| 10 | And to be honest , after the dreadful way we finished last season , we would have settled for being fifth from bottom right now . |
| 11 | We had already settled for Peru when Terry rang , but the vision he described was far from encouraging : Lima a cauldron of unrest and theft , the hills in the hands of ‘ Sendero , ’ the country on the edge of collapse . |
| 12 | However , not all futures contracts are settled by the delivery of a cash market good ; some are settled for cash . |
| 13 | If the contract goes to delivery , it clearly has to be settled for cash since it is not possible to deliver a physical index . |
| 14 | The Countess had settled for McNair . |
| 15 | This will occur once a pidgin-speaking community is sufficiently settled for children to be born , and to grow up hearing the pidgin spoken all around them . |
| 16 | In one case of mine , eventually settled for £300,000 , the master ordered an interim payment of £125,000 to be paid in two instalments , the first of £75,000 to enable the plaintiff to buy a suitable bungalow and install a nurse , so that she could come out of hospital , and the second of £50,000 to ensure that nursing could continue to trial . |
| 17 | The Colinton area has been settled for centuries and the village was a centre of the milling industry in the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 18 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 19 | About the year 1800 , or just afterwards , my great-great-grandfather , John Hey , moved from Shelley in the parish of Kirkburton , where his ancestors had been settled for centuries , to the village of Thurlstone . |
| 20 | Many monasteries had settled for safety on secluded islands in the swamps . |
| 21 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 22 | He would have settled for Hilderbridge College of Technology . |
| 23 | The EC put a figure of £44.4m on the payments , plus interest , but BAe has settled for £42.2m net of tax relief . |
| 24 | There were 204 drummers auditioned before The Clash settled for Nicky ‘ Topper ’ Headon . |
| 25 | It was built largely from bricks baked on the spot , though because it was also built in haste the kilns , designed to produce 100,000 bricks a year , could not always keep up and instead of bricks the masons settled for stones in the upper part of the walls . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the Polish nobility that had led the national movement in Marx 's time had yielded power in Poland to a new rising capitalist class and settled for privileges guaranteed by the Tsar . |
| 27 | There are various power outputs available but the ST200 I settled for kicks out 100 watts per side in stereo and , when bridged into mono , the full 200 watts . |
| 28 | The speciality of the house was fillet of reindeer with wild mushrooms , the Scandinavian equivalent of our venison but we settled for Chateaubriand , cooked to perfection and served at the table by the charming Italian head waiter , Paolo whose efficient and attentive service enhanced the evening . |
| 29 | Bernice did n't know whether to laugh or cry , so she settled for sarcasm . |
| 30 | She settled for lunch at a seafront café — an ice-cold Coke and a selection of tapas . |