Example sentences of "to settle for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
| 2 | With or without heart trouble , Shelby was n't a man to settle for a dull life . |
| 3 | And to , to resign and to bring the new leader in charge to settle for a time . |
| 4 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 5 | Arsenal 4 , C Palace 1 IT WAS billed as the Ian Wright Show , but the Arsenal striker had to settle for a supporting role as Paul Merson stole the top honours , writes Paul Newman . |
| 6 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 7 | The Versailles Treaty forbade the unification of the two countries , so they were obliged , with great misgivings , to settle for a little Austria ( until the Third Reich simultaneously achieved the forbidden merger and the destruction of the Social Democrats ) . |
| 8 | Aches and pains sometimes ease up when the menopause is over but many of us will have to settle for a certain amount of back pain , headaches and limited movement from now on . |
| 9 | For the do-it-yourself bar user it is best to settle for a narrow bar that is at least one millimetre thick . |
| 10 | But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury . |
| 11 | England will probably be happy to settle for a draw at Eden Gardens and force the pace in the second Test in Madras . |
| 12 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 13 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 14 | Vinny grinned : ‘ The boss subjected our earholes to a bit of GBH and we came back so strongly we were a bit sick at having to settle for a point after going 3-2 up . ’ |
| 15 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 16 | SHANE MACGOWAN continues to enjoy his bottle of wine , while JON BEAST has to settle for a double chin . |
| 17 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 18 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 19 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 20 | So maybe I could tempt you to settle for a mere lifetime with me , Caroline ? ’ |
| 21 | It may also have a negative effect on prosecutors who might be inclined to settle for a plea of guilty to assault instead . |
| 22 | Instead , he had to settle for a chemist 's shop , and though he still tried to behave like a doctor , it did n't work . |
| 23 | He looked at her in silence for several long moments , but instead of denying the accusation he said , ‘ As my acting hostess I expect you to know what they 're like , otherwise it will be impossible for you to explain that honeymooners expecting luxury suites with king-sized beds will have to settle for a roll in the hay . ’ |
| 24 | On July 16 Baker confirmed that Syria had dropped its insistence on a significant role for the UN at the conference and was prepared to settle for a UN observer . |
| 25 | The question was whether to settle for a return to the status quo , or to try to unite the two Koreas and achieve a victory over the communists . |
| 26 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 27 | The target real wage rate is not a specific number but will depend upon the unemployment rate : the higher the unemployment rate , the less ambitious are union negotiators and the more prepared are they to settle for a lower real wage . |
| 28 | ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton . |
| 29 | No doubt Sir David is off on another of his trips to an exotic location soon — but for now he 's happy to settle for a spot of exploration a bit nearer to home . |
| 30 | GRANDMASTER DRAW : a short drawn game where neither player has made any real effort to fight and both are happy to settle for a draw . |