Example sentences of "settle for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the tragic woman who 'd been deserted by her father and had settled for second best . |
| 2 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 3 | Eventually the breeders settled for solid red , though small touches of white were acceptable , and a dual-purpose type with the emphasis on milk . |
| 4 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 5 | Instead , climbing as two pairs , the climbers settled for alpine-style ascents of the 3,000-metre west ridge — ‘ A bit like a giant version of the Hornli ridge on the Matterhorn or Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis , ’ according to Roger . |
| 6 | Vincent , steeped in the realism of his culture , could never have settled for external appearance only . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I have now settled for two types of float for bream fishing . |
| 9 | We encountered some problem lining up screw holes in the harddisk with holes in the mounting frame and settled for two fixings instead of the recommended three . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 11 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 12 | David Pyper was also among those battling in front in the early stages but eventually dropped back and settled for fourth . |
| 13 | He might have settled for less , ’ Rincewind conceded . |
| 14 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 15 | She 's settled for some biscuits and cheese and a yoghurt and a glass of orange juice . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | The most obvious person to take it out on is your boyfriend , and so I settled for that . |
| 20 | And I settled for that . |
| 21 | so we settled for that but er , it was an inferior were n't it one we |
| 22 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 23 | They settled for five shillings , every Friday . |
| 24 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 25 | We settled for yellow and white all round . |
| 26 | She felt she could not give up totally , but settled for three or four slim cigars a day instead of ten to fifteen cigarettes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Rainey 's Italian team-mate Luca Cadalora won today 's event , holding off a late charge by Doohan while Schwantz settled for third after throttling back because of problems with his front tyre . |
| 29 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 30 | But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime . |