Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’ |
| 2 | It may seem early for Air Mail to wish readers a happy Christmas ! |
| 3 | Similarly , if a floating.point compare instruction is provided , it should test not for equality but for an absolute difference lying within this range . |
| 4 | ‘ It could drag on for months , ’ I protested , ‘ years even . ’ |
| 5 | Because there is little wind that high to split the particles up , it could stay there for years . |
| 6 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 7 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 8 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 9 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 10 | Fondant is easily coloured ( see page 21 for instructions on how to mix with food colouring ) , and although soft and pliable it will harden sufficiently for painting and forming into free-standing objects . |
| 11 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 12 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |