Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A representative chosen by the people of a particular constituency should presumably speak for that constituency . |
| 2 | A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency , to put every penny of your subscription to good use . |
| 3 | While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness . |
| 4 | According to the functionalist , then , to explain the existence of a social institution we must not look for purposive intention on the part of individuals but , rather , we should investigate the fact that the social system as a whole requires its needs to be satisfied . |
| 5 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 6 | So what d' you reckon I should reasonably ask for that thing then ? |
| 7 | Any such scheme must also plan for permanent accommodation and personal assistance ; indeed it was the difficult experience of getting district councils within their area to house people who had tried out the transition project and wanted to live independently which prompted one SSD to address itself to the task of influencing local housing authorities . |
| 8 | Both men and women must also look for paid work and many have been forced to migrate into the cities . |
| 9 | If the person taking the blood sample is asked for what purpose it is being taken and replies that it is for an HIV antibody test , a person who does not wish an HIV antibody test to be done should expressly say so , and should also ask for this refusal to be entered in their medical records . |
| 10 | In English cases , the English correspondent should theoretically apply for legal advice and assistance or legal aid in England , and any further work necessary in Scotland should be done by the Scottish solicitor as correspondent of the English solicitor . |
| 11 | We must therefore look for some accommodation between states , and this in two important respects : we must seek to further binding agreements between states which limit and reduce the possession as well as the use of nuclear weapons and we must work to control the lesser hostilities whose escalation will always be one of the chief threats of total destruction . |
| 12 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 13 | Physical miracles may not happen for each person but I felt miracles can happen within everyone . |
| 14 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 15 | This was drawn up on account of the difficulty which the negotiators at The Hague had in agreeing whether or not irregular forces in occupied territory might or might not qualify for combatant status , but its words have a wider relevance : |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll just stay for one game , ’ Christine said , unable to resist the longing to play . |
| 17 | Of these 0.5 m. might well vote for one party . |
| 18 | As an alternative to foreclosure , the court may direct a sale of the property , and this may be fairer to both parties , since any surplus upon such sale will belong to the mortgagor , while the mortgagee may still sue for any deficiency . |
| 19 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 20 | I could not sleep for sheer fatigue . |
| 21 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 22 | We could not wish for greater clarity . |
| 23 | It was held that the tailor could not sue for any money because the goods were not necessaries ; the minor was already well supplied with waistcoats . |
| 24 | They argued that an interpretation in terms of the relative potency of crossed and uncrossed pathways could not account for this result . |
| 25 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 26 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 27 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 28 | One surely could n't hope for greater understanding . ’ |
| 29 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 30 | We could n't tender for new business . |