Example sentences of "settle for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 2 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 3 | He might have settled for less , ’ Rincewind conceded . |
| 4 | She 's settled for some biscuits and cheese and a yoghurt and a glass of orange juice . ’ |
| 5 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 6 | Whistling in the wind , that had been , because they had settled for half , and never recovered from the shame of behaving in the same way as the typists and fitters and laboratory assistants . |
| 7 | Consequently , the ‘ visitors ’ and ‘ guardians ’ usually settled for any occupation that required ‘ some training which offered a prospect of continuous employment , and which fulfils the other desirable conditions ’ . |
| 8 | The most obvious person to take it out on is your boyfriend , and so I settled for that . |
| 9 | And I settled for that . |
| 10 | so we settled for that but er , it was an inferior were n't it one we |
| 11 | After a very competent dish of riz de veau ( pan friend veal sweetbreads ) accompanied by an excellent bottle of Pouilly Fuisse crisp , bags of ripe gooseberries — we skipped dessert and settled for another good coffee . |
| 12 | ‘ I take second place to your work , and I 'll have to settle for that , I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | Are the greatest club in the land happy to settle for that kind of substitute ? |
| 14 | England were no doubt content to settle for that return from their spearhead bowler on such a benign pitch . |
| 15 | She might not have kissed him , but for the moment he knew he was willing to settle for that message : I love you — I think . |
| 16 | Either you 've got to decide to settle for that , or you should clear out of his life altogether . ’ |
| 17 | They had to settle for much less , however , and an understanding was reached with local authorities , in spite of some early reluctance on their part . |
| 18 | Although the British offered assurances that they would still work towards freer trade relations as circumstances permitted , the multilateralists in Washington had been compelled to settle for much less than they would have liked . |
| 19 | Not prepared to settle for this result , Gorbachev renominated Yanayev . |
| 20 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 21 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 22 | James Baker , the Chief of Staff , was a natural compro-miser happy to settle for half a loaf as long as it could be made to look like a victory for the president . |
| 23 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 24 | He said that he would be visiting the Eyas offices within the hour to settle for these shares in person . |
| 25 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 26 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 27 | As far as the music industry , as far as any industry , you do n't have to settle for any of it . |
| 28 | The question is then , wrote Harsnet , whether to settle for less or start again . |
| 29 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 30 | Israel 's Finance Minister , Itzhak Moda'i , indicated on Feb. 24 that Israel was fully prepared to settle for less than the full US$10,000 million in loan guarantees . |