Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 8 | His head whirled and he felt giddy , virtually unable to stand upright for the foul vapours about him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And when he 'd finished and been weighed again and she 'd changed his diaper and put it in the special container to go away for the chemical analysis — And a nasty old job that must be to do ! |
| 15 | you 'll have to go elsewhere for the actual paper . ) |
| 16 | Very easy plant to grow even for the absolute beginner . |
| 17 | The plan was for Richard and Philip to meet at Vézelay on 1st April 1190 and then to leave together for the Holy Land . |
| 18 | In the crucial areas of international relations the state still dominates and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | If those Labour voters work out that ‘ culture of co-operation ’ means they ought to vote tactically for the Liberal Democrats — and they do seem to have worked it out at Newbury last week — it 's curtains for yours truly . ’ |
| 20 | In the republic of Slovenia , whose referendum of December 1990 had affirmed its right to secede from Yugoslavia [ see pp. 37924 ; 38019 ] , the republic 's Assembly approved on March 7 a law allowing Slovene conscripts to refuse to serve in the JNA , and to opt instead for the Slovene Territorial Defence units or the Slovene police . |
| 21 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 22 | And it was funny , the carrion crows use to keep away for the whole week nearly . |
| 23 | Dodman was sentenced to 18 months with a further 12 month sentence to run concurrently for the other four offences . |
| 24 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 25 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 26 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 27 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 28 | Unlike HP , which has so far made the biggest splash enticing the mainframe software vendors to port their applications to its platforms , Sun is less likely to pay up-front for the porting work , preferring to spend the money on joint marketing . |
| 29 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 30 | The next day would be spent there , before departing at dusk for the Ras Tanura holding area to anchor there for the following day . |