Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information . |
| 2 | Give the board a good jolt and the l.e.d. should stop flashing for another minute . |
| 3 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 4 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 5 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 6 | This could include providing for zero quotas on all African nations — or selectively reducing quotas to help stop poached ivory slipping into legal trade . |
| 7 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 8 | When we have achieved this we will consider applying for third party certification . |
| 9 | I welcome also the introduction of annual written reports , which I hope will contain grading for each child . |
| 10 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 11 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 12 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 13 | Sorry , twenty four percent , twenty four percent body weight erm about a quarter in other words when , when a young woman 's body is about one quarter fat , she can start menstruating for obvious reasons . |