Example sentences of "[modal v] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews . |
| 2 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 3 | Do not be afraid to ask questions , particularly , perhaps , questions as to why things are done in the way they are — though you should for a long time be very restrained in any suggestions you make for improvement . |
| 4 | Perhaps , too , the archaic words might for a brief minute live again : |
| 5 | Nevertheless , we can not blame the system altogether , as many people do n't think ahead and make the provision they could for a reasonable income in retirement . |
| 6 | For the tiny group of declared nationalists , cultural and linguistic oppression loomed large , far larger than it could for an illiterate peasantry ( although the use of the Ukrainian language had considerable popular support ) . |
| 7 | Yet at the same time local officers and shop stewards of the same unions were finding themselves party to local , enterprise-level agreements setting the terms under which temporary workers could for the first time be used , or under which their use could be expanded . |
| 8 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 9 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 10 | She could n't take their mother 's place , of course , but for Liz 's sake she must try to do everything she possibly could for the little girls . |
| 11 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 12 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 13 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 14 | Breathe as you normally would for a few minutes . |
| 15 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 16 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
| 17 | Be careful with spacing , and mark out on to the wall as you would for the arch former , starting with the top centre brick , to achieve a realistic effect . |
| 18 | Sometimes the initial claims made were much exaggerated : as the claim made in New Testament studies that the computer would for the first time reveal the true lineaments of the Bible that we had ignorantly worshipped . |
| 19 | Esher ( 1981 ) has suggested that Britain has experienced three ‘ Rebuilds ’ : the Enlightenment , the Industrial Revolution and the Welfare State : ‘ fashioned by wartime social democrats in England , which would for the first time in history build cities that were not dramatizations of privilege and poverty ’ ( p. 278 ) . |
| 20 | The ruling party also announced that the December 1990 elections to the People 's Assembly would for the first time be open to participation by other parties . |
| 21 | Andorrans would for the first time wield full sovereignty , be able to form and join unions and political parties and have an independent judiciary . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 23 | An FAO report published in November 1989 said that , despite a net increase in world cereal production , world stocks would for the third year running be " at or below the minimum necessary to safeguard global food security " , with wheat reserves in the leading exporting countries at their lowest since the world food crisis of the early 1970s . |
| 24 | But one reason why on Thursday I shall for the first time be voting Conservative , with passionate conviction , may be illustrated by a meeting I attended in our constituency last Sunday , at which several hundred people were addressed by our four candidates . |
| 25 | ‘ We shall for the first time protect landscapes , not one of which has been scheduled , by designating key landscapes as Areas of Archaeological Importance . |
| 26 | The Comptroller and Auditor General shall for the financial year ending 31st March 1984 and for each subsequent financial year prepare an estimate of the expenses of the National Audit Office ; and the Commission shall examine that estimate and lay it before the House of Commons with such modifications , if any , as the Commission see fit . |
| 27 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 28 | In the new domains such as foreign policy , the commission will for the first time have a right to propose . |
| 29 | Since citizens of all colours will for the first time be allowed to vote together , it will produce a legislature dominated by blacks . |
| 30 | That , in itself , will be an important step forward , but perhaps even more important is the fact that , because of the change , there will for the first time be a proper appeals procedure for those who need help with care . |