Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 2 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 3 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 4 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 5 | Bearing this number in mind , you decide how many tokens your child will have to pay for a list ( something like a menu ) of rewards you have constructed , such as choosing a favourite pudding , staying up later than usual , a box of crayons or a special outing . |
| 6 | Students who do well in the three years of the MA(General) may choose to proceed for a further year to obtain the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 7 | Governors who are committed to the cause of special education will have to bid for a share of resources in competition with the advocates of other areas of the curriculum who will be pressing their case with equal vigour . |
| 8 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 9 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 10 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 11 | The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase . |
| 12 | The filthy canalside lacked most of the qualities Lefevre would have chosen for a romantic interlude , but some men were not so particular . |
| 13 | as these will ‘ drown ’ if cut below water level , so sufficient length should remain to allow for a fluctuating water level . |
| 14 | The Abidjan protocol would have provided for a greatly expanded UN mandate . |
| 15 | If only the most dependent and disturbed patients are admitted to hospital care , then local authority care will need to provide for a wide range of elderly people including many with dementia , and some with milder behaviour problems . |
| 16 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 17 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 18 | Proceeds of a concert at Middlesbrough Little Theatre on May 10 in memory of Police Superintendent Bill Askew who died of cancer will help pay for a holistic treatment centre , an alternative medicine to fight cancer , at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 19 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |
| 20 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |