Example sentences of "[vb infin] for a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 2 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 3 | The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ . |
| 4 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 5 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 6 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 7 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 8 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 9 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 10 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 11 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 12 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 13 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 14 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 15 | A pea would do for a rather green skull for the skeleton . |
| 16 | We can not now implement the whole of that programme and must look for a more concessive approach , capable of accommodating the competing strengths of individualism . |
| 17 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 18 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 19 | Secondly , institutional changes have also been introduced which hopefully will provide for a more cooperative relationship between the Council of Ministers and the EP . |
| 20 | I mean unless you actually do go and work for a specifically religious charity , |
| 21 | The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet . |
| 22 | I would hope for a little bipartisan support for the sort of work done , for example , by our drugs liaison officers abroad , who have brought about such successful seizures of heroin and other drugs in recent months . |
| 23 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 24 | Mr Brown said he really could n't wish for a more destructive class . |
| 25 | With a little more animation , he could pass for a really handsome man . |
| 26 | The stand-in who could also pass for a horribly oppressed 25-shilling Victorian clerk was , of course , Mark Lennox-Boyd , son of the more famous Alan . |
| 27 | He later adds : ‘ If you are trying to set him up … you should go for a fairly substantial sum . ’ |
| 28 | On the other hand , the probability that we would go for a genuinely original idea may be very high indeed . |
| 29 | The fragility of most Early Netherlandish panels means that most museums will refuse loans save for a very good reason . |
| 30 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |