Example sentences of "to settle [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may prefer short term bid speculation to long term recovery but if Mr Louis-Dreyfus has his way , they will have to settle for the latter . |
| 2 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 3 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 4 | They were n't going to settle for the one goal . |
| 5 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 6 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 7 | As always he must wait for the dust to settle after the Scottish Rally and the Donegal International , too , before being certain which drivers and what cars will be in his starting line-up . |
| 8 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |
| 9 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 10 | The surviving uskoks were able to settle in the fortified town of Senj , on the rugged Velebit coast , opposite the southern tip of Krk island . |
| 11 | As you know , blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around . |
| 12 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |
| 13 | ‘ Abstraction ’ should help us to move when we wish and to settle in the best camping places . |
| 14 | The key worker should be on hand for part of the time to settle in the new resident . |
| 15 | Not much later , in 1670 , the Jews were expelled from Vienna , many to settle in the nearby hinterland . |
| 16 | ( He goes on to describe how swans came to settle in the public lakes of the city . ) |
| 17 | I had often wondered why they chose to settle in the thick woodlands on heavy clay . |
| 18 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 19 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 20 | It was difficult to settle on the right key . |
| 21 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 22 | He felt he would be in ‘ a better position to settle on the appropriate form of punishment ’ if he knew the victim 's feelings . |