Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 2 | The king , anxious to pay Anselm back for disobliging him on investitures , was also determined to frustrate him . |
| 3 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 4 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 5 | To some extent , each pattern seems to have grown up for extraneous , though important , reasons to do with institutional or occupational history and student circumstances . |
| 6 | City directors are understood to have pulled out for financial reasons . |
| 7 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 8 | Now that is the type of thing that I would like to see come back for legal opinions on that statutory responsibility , the level of it , and the reasons for it . |