Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 2 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 3 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 4 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 5 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 6 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 7 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 8 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
| 10 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 11 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 12 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 13 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 14 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 15 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 17 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 18 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 19 | Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group . |
| 20 | His head whirled and he felt giddy , virtually unable to stand upright for the foul vapours about him . |
| 21 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 22 | Two-way telemetry was used to compensate both for the atmospheric effects and for the first-order Doppler shift due to the relative velocity of the masers . |
| 23 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |
| 24 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 25 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 26 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 27 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 28 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 29 | A critical level of professional staff is required to provide adequately for the clinical needs of patients who are referred , irrespective of additional needs to provide excellence in postgraduate clinical training and research . |
| 30 | The visitors continued to search desperately for a late equaliser , but Ipswich dug deep and hung on to book a quarter-final tussle at home to Sheffield Wednesday next month . |