Example sentences of "settle for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading at that stage by two strokes , the conservative thing to do was lay up and settle for a five . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'll skip the bath , settle for a nice hot dinner . ’ |
| 3 | Adopting special sleep postures ( Figure 1 ) , they settle for a snooze in flocks of up to 30 birds . |
| 4 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 5 | Butterflies spend a lot of their time sucking nectar from flowers , but occasionally you will see one settle for a short while on a leaf or stem , then fly away . |
| 6 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 7 | Because of the vast range of the information potentially bearing on a decision individuals do not attempt to collect and assess all of it before deciding , but settle for a more manageable sample . |
| 8 | If all that is needed from the computer system is a means of generating high quality text output then settle for a word processing package that can talk to a page printer . |
| 9 | We settle for a bottle of Retsina ; nasty cheap wine from the local Greek 's . |
| 10 | settle for a fifty |
| 11 | But most of us would probably eschew the ostentatious and eccentric , and settle for an honest and straightforward run of bindings that have a plain tale to tell of their place and time . |
| 12 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 13 | Settle for the enemy . ’ |
| 14 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 15 | If calories are a terminal concern , forget the mince pie altogether — they average about 220 calories each — and just settle for the yoghurt . |
| 16 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
| 17 | It 's not the job of education to ensure that young people settle for the status quo . |
| 18 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 19 | The woman searches — though these days she does n't know it , matters of procreation being so far from anyone 's thoughts — for a good father for her young , adequate in looks , more than adequate as a provider ; the man searches for a good , kind and competent mother for his children , not such a dog as to make copulation a problem — both settle for the best he or she can do . |
| 20 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 21 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |