Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several years of policy development , the RHA came to the conclusion that it should aim for the closure of all the six mental hospitals , rather than just two . |
| 2 | As a young animal grows its rank changes , but not automatically ; it must fight for every increase in dominance it achieves . |
| 3 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 4 | It must provide for a nominee to act as the IVA 's trustee or supervisor . |
| 5 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 6 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 7 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 8 | It might account for the recapture of Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside , for Michael Forsyth 's survival in Stirling , and for the remarkable defence by Phil Gallie , a new candidate , of George Younger 's 182 majority in Ayr . |
| 9 | Oh it 'll pay for a bit of the ferry but has , has no one approached the unions ? |
| 10 | ‘ And it 'll last for a while yet . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'll do for the man it is for . |
| 12 | And it 'll run for an hour without pedalling . |
| 13 | Oh aye , oh y y you better get used to that , cos it 'll happen for the rest of your life . |
| 14 | POSC says it 'll call for the development of a set of industry-specific widgets next year when a more complete range of interface recommendations will be presented . |
| 15 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 16 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 17 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 18 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 19 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 20 | Were the Labour party to have the trust of its people , it could legislate for every item in the social chapter tomorrow . |
| 21 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 22 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 23 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 24 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |
| 25 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 26 | In January Czechoslovakia announced that it would press for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops from its territory by the end of 1990 . |
| 27 | It was off , but it would do for a round of roulette . |
| 28 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |
| 29 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 30 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |