Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | These results are similar to those of Heyderman et al , who found that 20 out of 22 primary pancreatic tumours focally or weakly stained for carcinoembryonic antigen . |
2 | They 're expecting , or rather hoping for , an ‘ intense ’ reception from the Mormon capital . |
3 | In practice , viewers preferred to wait and see — or rather wait for other people to see — before converting their TV sets to receive the new signal . |
4 | In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued . |
5 | Martial acts might also be more dramatic or better recorded for wider public esteem . |
6 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
7 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
8 | If she lived in a mill town , the choice was more or less made for her . |
9 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
10 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
11 | With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate . |
12 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |
13 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
14 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
15 | The package to be submitted for approval , or already submitted for approval , does not reference the modules listed on the corresponding Design Changes ( DCs ) . |
16 | The package to be submitted for approval ( or already submitted for approval ) does not reference the modules listed on the corresponding Design Changes ( DCs ) . |
17 | This would be searchable in either direction , which could be useful in some parallel application for string searching , or just allowing for reverse searching because the end of the string is more restrictive . |
18 | Deardrie , should I give her a rocket , or just wait for a postcard ? |
19 | People take early retirement , move to a new school , get a job out of teaching , get seconded on to courses or research projects , or just wait for the holidays . |
20 | There is always so much to do around the boat in the way of maintenance , cleaning , taking stores , fuelling or just shopping for domestic needs that strict self discipline must be imposed to keep revenue work in the forefront . |
21 | It is now an acceptable place to bivouac or just to break for lunch in bad weather . |
22 | After all , most relationships are based on contracts , whether written , spoken or just taken for granted . |
23 | Moreover , every member of every discipline has a right , even a duty , to challenge , disprove or modify what has earlier been agreed or just taken for granted . |
24 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
25 | There will also be about 20 contemporary masks , bought or specially made for the display , and dozens of comics featuring masked characters . |
26 | They were confined to assessment schemes specifically designed for lower attainers or specially adapted for them for example , restricted grade CSE examinations were included . |
27 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
28 | Over a period of , say , one year a country will add up how much it has paid or still owes for goods imported from foreign countries . |
29 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
30 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |