Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever their own political persuasions , journalists tend to look for the most interesting outcome of any given set of circumstances . |
| 2 | Are we all prepared to accept these price increases for the sometimes dubious advantage of seeing our environment improved ? |
| 3 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 4 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 5 | Forget , he says , the fact that the people ( I am desperately trying to avoid using the words ‘ Red Indian ’ and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism , Native American ) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals . |
| 6 | If you find that the shaping instructions do n't seem to work for machine knitting , then you need to opt for the EASILY KNITTED STITCH LAYOUT . |
| 7 | Modern attempts to classify political regimes have begun for the most part from some general theory of society , and as I have indicated they were strongly influenced at the outset ( and again in recent decades ) by conceptions of social evolution or development . |