Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the consequences could be even more startling , for better or for worse . |
| 2 | Ours , for better or for worse , is the century of youth . |
| 3 | The horse 's temperament , along with the effects of its environment , learning , and handling by people , will determine the horse 's mature personality for better or for worse . |
| 4 | For Tuscany is not only porcupines and wild boars and beekeepers and cameo carvers , it 's also supermarkets , traffic jams , the boring conversation of tomcats , awful television and yes , for better or for worse , English tourists . |
| 5 | For better or for worse the studio system the moguls created , dubbed by its detractors as the slave trade , which had discovered and nursed the greatest names of Hollywood of three decades , and probably ever , was on the verge of collapse , though as Elizabeth Taylor put it so succinctly : ‘ The death rattle seemed never ending . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 7 | This acceptance of ‘ for better or for worse ’ was rather easier before medical science made hope glow eternally , even if the flame is often little more than a flicker . |
| 8 | And though , of the two , the first is no longer available to support the judgment , the second — whether the Socialism perceived is dogmatic or diffident , Marxist or empirical — is operative still to provide , for better or for worse , assumptions about the form of industrial democracy and about the roles , contrasted or opposed , to be played in it by an industrial co-operative sector and the trade unions . |
| 9 | For better or for worse ? |
| 10 | Book on parenthood by American cartoonist whose ‘ For Better or for Worse ’ strip is syndicated in 1,400 newspapers worldwide . |
| 11 | They were a family living in Rome for better or for worse , that would n't change any more than the world would change . |
| 12 | With the lesson of 1923 in mind , the leadership has continued to support the AWB — ; for better or for worse . |
| 13 | For better or for worse . ’ |
| 14 | In a more positive way , by raising public expectations , social services may , for better or for worse , reinforce the general belief that economic growth is and must remain the paramount objective of any government . |
| 15 | Marriage is for life and a wife has got to share her husband 's life , for better or for worse . ’ |
| 16 | Medical students in prolonged contact with junior doctors learn attitudes by example , for better or for worse . |
| 17 | She became book dependent , for better or for worse . |
| 18 | For better or for worse . |
| 19 | Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East . |
| 20 | She had vowed to honour him for better or for worse , just as he must honour her in sickness as he did in health . |
| 21 | For better or for worse , the weekend had started . |
| 22 | For better or for worse , DOS is the one thing which unites PCs and their users . |
| 23 | Today we know for better or for worse that cops , like doctors and priests , are merely human . |
| 24 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 25 | He does not have any feel for how strategy and the construction of social constituencies of support match up , or for wider social and cultural themes . |
| 26 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 27 | Good sets are Super Ailsa Craig , Giant Fen Globe , or for larger onions , choose Showmaster . |
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| 29 | They may bear grievances about the fact that they are locked up in prison , perhaps for longer than they feel they deserve or for longer than other offenders whom they regard as comparable . |
| 30 | In the USA at least , there needs to be an improvement in scientists ' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research ( see Kitsos and Ashe 1989 ) . |