Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT&T Co says it has negotiating with European carriers to join its WorldSource venture for ‘ better than a year , ’ but that with its customers clamouring for one-stop shopping , especially in Europe , AT&T could n't wait any longer for national carriers to join — ‘ We do n't plan to leave our customers at the European borders , ’ it said . |
| 2 | Working around a resource-based pattern , especially when what Holly has called " structured heroism " is expected to play an important role , the teacher-team can plan more readily for multiple methodologies than if the basic pattern is what might in contrast be termed " developed exposition " . |
| 3 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 4 | But he will delve much further for arcane and perverse factoids like her bra-size ( 30A ) or any childhood diseases she may have had ( chicken pox ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It sounds a bit idyllic and it is , but it ca n't really happen very often for boring , practical reasons . |
| 6 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 7 | It is impossible to see how the European Parliament , with its seventy national and political groupings , could ever form coherently enough for true parliamentary debate and opposition to take place . |
| 8 | She did n't care too much for other dogs but her pet hates were chickens and cats . |