Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 2 | Moreover , a collective managerial guilt was at work , attempting to ‘ compensate for the forty years of Francoism suffered by the mass of the workforce ’ . |
| 3 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 4 | You ca n't answer for the other officers but you can answer for yourself . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 6 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 7 | He asserts that when faced with paying higher prices ( and significantly higher prices ) for the precise product specification consumers are supposed to want , those consumers will opt for the low-priced goods . |
| 8 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |
| 9 | it 's not very many people who would qualify for the minimum premiums . |
| 10 | An absolute winner — I ca n't wait for the new items in the series . |
| 11 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 12 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
| 13 | Of course the possibility remains that the sites HS5A and 5B do fulfill an as yet unclear function and that the other hypersensitive sites still present in this construct may functionally substitute for the deleted sites , reflecting a level of redundancy in the NF-L regulatory sequences . |
| 14 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard also says that Menchu ‘ does not speak for the Mayan Indians of Guatemala ’ . |
| 15 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 17 | But that does n't follow for the liberal democrats in this particular council . |
| 18 | That compares with the figures you 'll see for the inner routes erm which are higher er because of the er greater transfer of traffic from existing roads . |
| 19 | We can ask — what sort of day care will best provide for the individual needs of the sufferers ? |
| 20 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 21 | Prices were allowed to rise unchecked , hitting the poor worst of all and adding thousands to their number ; parish relief , it was argued , would provide for the true paupers , and the rest would have to be satisfied with the temporary increase in employment which the war brought with it . |
| 22 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 23 | New studies will search for the tiniest blips in the microwave background . |
| 24 | He checked the police ID cards , and finally had to accept that the police would vouch for the social workers . |
| 25 | However in applications where the load is likely to fluctuate the timings must he set for the worst conditions ( i.e. largest load ) and the control scheme is then non-optimal for all other loads . |
| 26 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 27 | Moreover , it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative . |
| 28 | An obvious risk of property damage alone is insufficient for manslaughter , but may suffice for the driving offences . |
| 29 | I really must apologise for the ill manners of my associate . |
| 30 | The conference illustrated why so few doctors manage to reach a position where they can apply for the senior fellowships and professorships , but answers were less forthcoming . |