Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 2 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 3 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 4 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 5 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 6 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 7 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 8 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 9 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 10 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 11 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 12 | Some policies will also include eventualities like job loss or having to stay home to care for a sick relative . |
| 13 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 14 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 15 | Freya was facing the wrong way in the womb but her mother says she was n't allowed even to try for a natural birth . |
| 16 | The small dark eyes crinkled in their walnut bags ; the magnificent profusion of handlebar moustache , grown long ago to compensate for a balding pate , bristled with the start of a smile . |
| 17 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 18 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 19 | She used to come down here from London , sometimes just for a meal , sometimes to unwind for a few days , sometimes with some young swain or other , sometimes on her own . |
| 20 | Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year . |
| 21 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 22 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 23 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 24 | The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father . |
| 25 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 26 | But Athey himself , or a county wanting to sign him and Derbyshire are reportedly interested can now approach the TCCB again to ask for a special exemption . |