Example sentences of "but [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 2 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 3 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 4 | The king 's son feigns all manner of vice , exceeding even Macbeth — but professing for himself a list of vices so horrible that Macduff is forced to exclaim that if he succeeds to the throne , Scotland will receive a far worse tyrant . |
| 5 | Founder Edward Marquis despises ‘ tacky stickers and cheap office rubbish ’ but goes for plants and table lamps and interesting displays . |
| 6 | Sandison called over to Franco but asked for only one glass of the special liqueur . |
| 7 | When he heard that a role in Papillon would be especially created for him , he was not only flattered but asked for ( and got ) a salary of $1.25 million . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration . |
| 9 | The company had been good , the talk relaxing and buoyant , but limited for all that . |
| 10 | They cost about 50 pence each to make , but sell for an average of £12.99 . |
| 11 | It should be emphasized that they were not serious attempts to take her life but cries for help . |
| 12 | It is known , however , that synthetic PGPR has a very short half life ( <5 minutes ) in human serum in vitro but persists for up to four hours in human urine in vitro . |
| 13 | But financing for a fresh bid remains the main hurdle . |
| 14 | Other works may be eligible , but grants for these will be offered at the discretion of the Environmental Health Department . |
| 15 | Another group who will lose out will be those on low incomes who are ineligible for income support but qualify for housing benefit . |
| 16 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |
| 17 | Judith Jones , his editor for the past 15 years , said Mr Hersey not only wrote , but fought for the rights of all authors and was active until the end . |
| 18 | This was relatively easy in the published bibliography , but made for many tiresome expansions online . |
| 19 | This was relatively easy in the published bibliography , but made for many tiresome expansions online . |
| 20 | What can I do but intercede for the publicans |
| 21 | Quilts were what you lay on to sunbathe that summer , not for warmth on beds , but slung for lounging comfort as it might be on some Damascus rooftop . |
| 22 | We always had very famous , established singers coming from I do n't know where — strong , heroic perhaps , but singing for themselves . |
| 23 | This paper describes an essay in implementing logical objects within a hypertext system , with the dual aims of building on the experience of document processing systems , but catering for these six differences . |
| 24 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 25 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 26 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 27 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 28 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 29 | These headings need a minimum fullness of twice the track length and calculations should be treated in the same way as for pinch pleat heading , but allowing for more pleats ( ‘ tubes ’ ) of a smaller size and closer spacing . |
| 30 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |