Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tranquillizer may help to reduce anxiety so that the person is better able to start tackling his problems , but the drug should only be used for a short time ( up to 2 weeks ) , and should be withdrawn once improvement in coping ability has begun to develop . |
| 2 | His sour grapes should not be mistaken for an accurate impression of the flavour of Charles 's court in December 842 . |
| 3 | It stated , there is no reason why your long serving member should not be nominated for a merit award . |
| 4 | Is not the timing of that exercise particularly insensitive , and is there any reason why it should not be postponed for a period of , say , a week as a mark of respect to the crew of the Antares , all of whom perished when the vessel was sunk ? |
| 5 | The pilot should always be prepared for an unexpected power failure during this critical stage of the launch . |
| 6 | Characteristic selectivities can also , without much strain , be called ‘ ideological ’ , though something must often be allowed for an otherwise conditioned persistence of certain artistic forms embodying such selections . |
| 7 | Mending skis should really be kept for an intermediates or advanced video . |
| 8 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 9 | Maybe we should be asking whether Speed should n't be sidelined for a spell , as he is a bit anonymous at times . |
| 10 | They should n't be programmed for a pattern during these exercises , in other words they would be turned off , or they too will respond to the pattern and show a different needle movement . |
| 11 | VR1 should then be adjusted for a reading of exactly 1,000 . |
| 12 | Further formal monitoring should then be reserved for a defined mid-point and the trial end . |
| 13 | The seaweed should then be left for a month . |
| 14 | And suppressants should never be used for a chesty cough . |
| 15 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 16 | This list does not include unusual or specialised weapons such as repeater hand guns , Goblin Fanatic ball and chain , etc , and such weapons may not be chosen for a character . |
| 17 | It looks like a college , and might even be mistaken for a supermarket . |
| 18 | The main road from Oxford to Bicester ( A43 ) runs dead straight for several miles and might well be taken for a fine piece of Roman road . |
| 19 | If any authorities do not succeed tomorrow , they may still be considered for a share of the extra allocation of £7.5 million next year . |
| 20 | It could only be followed for a limited period of time . |
| 21 | It was , again , an unsatisfactory solution , and Freud began to see that these earlier conceptualizations could only be used for a limited number of problems which arose in psychoanalysis , and that a new , more fundamental conceptualization was required . |
| 22 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 23 | It was clear that the Japanese war effort could not be extended for an appreciable period in the light of the allied command of the sea and air and the nature of the crippling conventional bombing by American planes . |
| 24 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 25 | The document could not be used for an independent inquiry arising out of other facts . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Mr Postlethwaite could not be located for a comment . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , it was felt that liability could somehow be imposed for an innocent breach of the rule , mitigation could be pleaded , with a corresponding reduction in any penalty . |
| 28 | Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi . |
| 29 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |
| 30 | DAS really gives the creative artist a simple way to create fast moving , effective animations which could easily be mistaken for a real cartoon . |