Example sentences of "[det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events of 1989 have done little for Australian image . |
| 2 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 3 | As the MOD has shopped around Europe for additional supplies of 155mm shells , some of the responses have done little for any future spirit of co-operation . |
| 4 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 5 | A help to fifth-gear flexibility , but one that does little for motorway fuel consumption — cruising at 80–85mph for most of one tankful ( unleaded only ) produced 26.5mpg . |
| 6 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 7 | He duly won the Washington International , but the race did little for harmony in transatlantic racing relations , for Lester Piggott 's handling of the colt provoked a bemused American press into heaping criticism on his apparently indifferent head . |
| 8 | He contends that their tax regime does little for families with children , discriminates in favour of dual earners , and presupposes that both parents have jobs . |
| 9 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 10 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 11 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 12 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |
| 13 | Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory . |
| 14 | He 'd branched out of mod and his look and outlook had changed little for years . |
| 15 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 16 | Unfortunately , however , the inquiry did little for public confidence in the independent judicial monitor . |
| 17 | The Wedding Present had managed themselves with a satisfying degree of success until Hallin 's arrival and it would appear that at first there was little for him to actually do . |
| 18 | His attractive wife got out wearing too little for my ease . |
| 19 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 20 | However , this promises to do little for educational standards ; sometimes these tutors have neither materials nor premises to work from , and hold classes under trees . |
| 21 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 22 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 23 | On each occasion a common sense category tied to urban renewal often hides a set of social processes which does little for those whose poverty provided the central rationale for urban policy in the first place . |
| 24 | The significant point is that the LDDC has intervened to help out developers of retail , housing and office projects , but has done little for existing local firms and businesses . |
| 25 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 26 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 27 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |
| 28 | With more and more bodegas setting up in Rioja — there was 62 in 1985 , 140 by 1991 — and with sales either static or declining , there seems little for recession-hit bodega bosses to laugh about . |
| 29 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 30 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |