Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 2 | If you hold a full Great Britain licence but are currently disqualified in GB you may only apply for a provisional licence . |
| 3 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 4 | Kicked out of Footsie , Tarmac is trailing the class acts in building materials badly and must secretly wish for a German recession to unseat Redland and RMC from their pedestals . |
| 5 | The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money . |
| 6 | It is the price the arts must inevitably pay for a higher political profile . |
| 7 | The ability of the modem to translate signals makes the information services market we have today a possibility … information publishers must now prepare for a new challenge and for a similar degree of networking capacity for video and other multimedia as they currently experience for data … ’ |
| 8 | All estimates of population size must therefore allow for a large measure of conjecture , a fact stressed by all reputable modern historians who have worked on this intractable subject . |
| 9 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |
| 10 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 11 | ‘ If you stay here she 'll probably call for a dozen more rehearsals of that damn kiss — so why do n't we cut out of here for a while and go for a coffee ? |
| 12 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 13 | Martin Cruz Smith has an intriguing hero to play with ; if he could only Strive For a Decisive Upswing in Plot Design , his mastery of the chilly thriller would be complete . |
| 14 | Despite the Copernican transformation , Kepler could still argue for a unique earth . |
| 15 | Bloody hell , I 'd even settle for a monthly but Punch should n't be allowed to just expire . |
| 16 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 17 | Students in this year may also opt for a substantial period on an experimental or computational project within the Meteorology Department . |
| 18 | Anglers and shooters may now wish for a lower profile and conflict with canoeists and ramblers respectively will bring publicity they could do without . |
| 19 | Let's now talk for a little while about the assignment . |
| 20 | There will be 40 happy faces when the School ends tomorrow but there will also be a lot of tears and Whelan may even return for a seventh time . |
| 21 | Your project may even qualify for a local authority grant ! |
| 22 | You may even qualify for a local authority grant ! |
| 23 | The players may well ask for a general description of the Castle . |
| 24 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 25 | After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop . |
| 26 | One would obviously hope for a linear dependence of the A-measure on area . |
| 27 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 28 | Of course the addition of a stereo processor would require a slightly bigger case but would still make for a manageable little rig . |
| 29 | The Kiwis , however , would probably ask for a hastily-arranged tour based more around one-day internationals than Tests . |
| 30 | Mr Lindsey was predicting in early January that the majority of customers this year would probably opt for a variable rate , on the basis that they probably did not believe interest rates would drop very much further . |