Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 3 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 4 | Any spreadsheet files sent in DIF format to InteCalc will be converted to its own internal format or if destined for an external program they will be sent as text . |
| 5 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 6 | When calculated for an individual subject this measure corresponds to the point on a confidence rating scale where the subject is indifferent between targets and distractors . |
| 7 | And do n't forget that the hilltop you cast your eye over when looking for an old route would have caught the eye of a medieval traveller as a good place to rest — and to lose coins . |
| 8 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 9 | If you want to use aromatherapy oils when caring for an elderly relative , be prepared to pay for the best . |
| 10 | To make this precise , he takes a well-defined notion of instrumental rationality ( Zweckrationalität ) from economics , as specified for an ideal-type case where the agent is fully rational and the rational choice fully calculable . |
| 11 | As striking for an impressionable child would have been the earth tremor on 27 March 829 which brought down houses in Aachen and damaged the roof of the palatine chapel . |
| 12 | The problem is , however , that claims for inherent harmony are vulnerable to the same kinds of objection as claims for an inherent conflict . |