Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 2 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 3 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 4 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 5 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 6 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 7 | Companies do not much care for the interventionist policies of Mitterrand 's government , including its decision to nationalise all the large IT companies . |
| 8 | From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything . |
| 9 | If you are a person of fastidious intellectual taste you will not much care for the comic-strip account given in the preceding paragraph . |
| 10 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 11 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 12 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 13 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 14 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 15 | Since cloned human TFIIA is not yet available , we used the yeast analogue , which can functionally substitute for the human factor in pol II transcription in vitro ( 17 , 24 ) . |
| 16 | Of course the possibility remains that the sites HS5A and 5B do fulfill an as yet unclear function and that the other hypersensitive sites still present in this construct may functionally substitute for the deleted sites , reflecting a level of redundancy in the NF-L regulatory sequences . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 18 | We can ask — what sort of day care will best provide for the individual needs of the sufferers ? |
| 19 | He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it . |
| 20 | Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less . |
| 21 | A source at Buckingham Palace said : ‘ Nothing will physically change for the young princes . |
| 22 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |
| 23 | Rainwater goods , coping roof edge trims and ventilators — in fact , everything you will ever need for the perfect job . |
| 24 | Bookings made before the end of November , however , will still qualify for the appropriate discount . |
| 25 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 26 | After all , if they 've got some of the modules , they can always go for the full general SVQ later . ’ |
| 27 | But if the scout car is n't quite the run around for you , you could always go for the little car with big ideas . |
| 28 | Do you always go for the same kinds of things ? |
| 29 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke halted trials of the American-style side handled baton saying : ‘ It could fundamentally alter for the worse the style of policing in this country . |