Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am wholly concerned to fight for the achievement of an equitable GATT solution as rapidly as possible . |
| 2 | The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder . |
| 3 | On average , the people who are most likely to opt for health insurance are those who know themselves to be relatively unhealthy . |
| 4 | Problems are most likely to arise for older workers where work is at a fast continuous pace , fixed at a pace suited to younger workers and over which the worker has no control , or where there are other time pressures . |
| 5 | Yet , at the same time , these are the sectors that are most likely to provide for those workers ( the lower paid and the unemployed ) at whom the government 's migration policies , operating through the Employment Transfer and Job Search Schemes , are aimed . |
| 6 | Suppose , for example , that risk-averse traders will only trade in the future spot market if the terms being offered there are sufficiently attractive to compensate for the extra risks incurred in delay . |
| 7 | Great care will therefore have to be taken that such guidelines are sufficiently flexible to allow for the type of open-ended approach that is so important in this area . |
| 8 | Their employees learn faster and are less likely to leave for a rival . |
| 9 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 10 | It seems that if Caribbean parents are not too preoccupied with the ‘ struggle ’ to bring their kids up , and there is every reason to believe that , due to the aftermath of migration , familial ruptures and large , possibly unmanageable families , it is a struggle , they are so eager to compensate for their own lack of education that they encumber their children with over-ambitious objectives backed by inflexible , often demoralizing , discipline . |
| 11 | The desperate conviction of the publishing trade that famous people are somehow obliged to write for it may well lead to nothing more than four-figure fax bills . |
| 12 | When parental care is inadequate , children should be placed with those who are best able to care for them . |
| 13 | They may be irritable children who are generally difficult to care for as well as to feed ( Powell and Low 1983 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Countries such as Hungary , Poland , Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria are already able to apply for observer status before becoming , in due course , parties to the Pharmacopoeia Corporation ’ . |
| 15 | Finally , studies have shown fitness improvement levels off once you are easily able to exercise for 30 minutes . |
| 16 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 17 | They 're even prepared to come for free , if we let them mime the record . " |
| 18 | Oh we 're quite happy to rent for a while . |
| 19 | But you 're too young to go for girls . |
| 20 | We may reject advertisements on grounds of taste , and we are always willing to consider for publication letters critical of advertising . |
| 21 | Because of inflation , now about 20% a month , they are usually unwilling to lend for longer than three to six months , and would prefer to stick to simple trade finance . |
| 22 | But my principal aim is to help to create a mood in which individual teachers are more keen to push for their own changes , and to become more effective in doing so . |
| 23 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are more concerned to press for policy changes , such as more day-care provision to help one-parent families , as urgently necessary ; the other group perhaps sees such changes as more long term , as not immediately related to the needs of the children who are currently the subject of placement decisions . |
| 24 | The men , who are interested in cash , are more liable to go for the big wood . |
| 25 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 26 | Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities . |
| 27 | By this time they are more able to fend for themselves , and have a better chance of survival . |
| 28 | Livebearers usually have small broods , too , as the fry are quite well-developed , and are more able to fend for themselves than eggs or newly hatched egglayers . |
| 29 | ‘ Lee Ellison , Sean Gregan and Anthony Isaacs are still eligible to play for the juniors . ’ |
| 30 | Tom Bowhill Restorations in Cheltenham is thriving , despite the recession , proving that people are still willing to pay for true craftsmanship . |