Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 2 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 3 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 4 | He was to remain there for a further six years . |
| 5 | The second difficulty is the inevitable paradox that lenders with the strictest criteria can afford to offer cheaper credit than those whose looser criteria demand higher rates to pay either for a larger proportion of bad debt or ( more often ) for costlier instalment collection procedures . |
| 6 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |