Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 2 | So I can for instance use erm Paradox or use Dbase as a front end to access and send email or E D I messages . |
| 3 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 4 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 5 | You might for example have a card on the theme/keyword " the sublime " , including notes drawn from a number of different books . |
| 6 | You might for example define Romanticism as " an artistic movement centrally concerned with the relationship between the self and others " . |
| 7 | No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men . |
| 8 | This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . |
| 9 | The followers a a are obliged to believe it and so the faith , the creed of the Catholic Church then becomes an article of membership and if you do n't subscribe to the creed , then this has implications for your standing in the group and you can for example be persecuted and Catholics not believing , whereas in a group like this , I do n't think we need a creed , we certainly would n't persecute anybody because we did n't believe a particular thing , because we can all negotiate our personal relations face- to-face . |
| 10 | but that does n't mean to say that you can for example you could become build up these Chairman skills that you 've got okay . |
| 11 | We should for instance clearly specify whether or not we intend issuing a formal valuation report/opinion . |
| 12 | We must for example be able to use concurrent users of the same accounting information in many different languages . |
| 13 | We might for example want to find out if it 's freezing outside without going outside to feel directly how cold it is . |
| 14 | It is clear that the ‘ costs charges and expenses ’ referred to both in the legal mortgage of 18 February 1985 ( which may be taken as typical of all the mortgage deeds ) and in the guarantee and debenture of 6 June 1985 may include both costs charges and expenses of or incidental to litigation ( which we will for convenience refer to as ‘ litigation costs ’ ) and costs , charges and expenses incurred otherwise than in connection with litigation ( ‘ non-litigation costs ’ ) . |
| 15 | We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important . |
| 16 | We 're not optimistic that we will fill them all , but one , we can for example talk about conversions . |
| 17 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 18 | There might for example be an editor , compiler or translator . |
| 19 | Erm there might for example be economic differences . |
| 20 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 21 | On the wards , day to day care means preparing patients as well as they can for surgery and beyond . |
| 22 | On the other hand , used aright , it can help very much in the understanding of mathematical operations , because far more many and widespread examples can be dealt with very quickly , and they can for example erm get a feel of the result of multiplying or dividing or whatever it , it is , numbers of quite different sizes . |
| 23 | As one peasant put it to Yakovlev on a later occasion : No one will help you for cash , but everyone will for home-brew . ’ |
| 24 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |
| 25 | He may for instance need to intervene at the modification stage of the structure plan , or it could be that he will have to deal with appeals against non-determination of applications made by prospective developers . |
| 26 | It is what is called a classical theory ; that is , it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , as it should for consistency with other theories . |
| 27 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 28 | Well he might for instance let us come over and and play with CorelDraw for an hour in one evening or something like that . |
| 29 | He might for example , have shown himself to be a ‘ little hard-nut ’ . |
| 30 | He might for example be led by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) to suggest that white is ambiguous , for in ( 8 ) it seems to mean " only or wholly white " while in ( 9 ) it can only mean " partially white " : ( 8 ) The flag is white ( 9 ) The flag is white , red and blue The semanticist who takes the other tack , that natural language senses are protean , sloppy and variable , is hardly in a better position : how do hearers then know ( which they certainly do ) just which variable value of white is involved in ( 8 ) ? |