Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 2 | As we saw in Chapter 4 , your contract may cater for a wide variety of perks , such as : |
| 3 | ( 3 ) A construction contract may provide for the determination by |
| 4 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 5 | In order to avoid being taken to have accepted a seller 's terms by accepting a delivery note , the buyer may arrange for its warehouse staff to acknowledge receipt of goods delivered by issuing a form referring to its own terms ; alternatively , it may stamp the seller 's delivery note with a receipt referring to its own terms , which may be effective to incorporate them if the stamp is legible . |
| 6 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 2 ) below , a licensing board may arrange for the discharge of any of its functions by a committee of the board , a member or members of the board , the clerk of the board or any other person appointed to assist the clerk . |
| 8 | Any party to the proceedings and any person named in the direction may apply for variation ( s38(8) ( b ) and FPCR , r2(1) ) . |
| 9 | Affiliated organisations , Constituency Labour Parties and Commons Members of Parliament may nominate for each of the offices of leader and deputy leader , one Commons Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party attending conference ( unless excused attendance as provided in sub-section ( c ) below ) as a delegate or ex-officio delegate . |
| 10 | Control of this kind may account for the observed differences between transcript concentrations of complex I and complex III genes . |
| 11 | Then the algorithm may opt for a particular child C on the basis of the gradient of f at N , but the gradient is misleading and in fact f ( C ) is much less then f(N) . |
| 12 | As regards the incompetent child , only his parents or legal guardian may speak for him , and then only for as long as he remains under their control or until majority at 18 years of age . |
| 13 | This defence may last for days or for weeks , but usually the funeral begins to make it all real to her . |
| 14 | In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) . |
| 15 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 16 | A ‘ good ’ story may run for four or five weeks , after which the media and the public tire of it . |
| 17 | The first relates to providing for any children of the marriage and the second allows for a temporary income to be given to either partner who is likely to suffer immediate hardship — this support may last for up to three years . |
| 18 | The National Curriculum is certainly not a complete curriculum , it stated : the whole curriculum must include for all pupils ( and in some cases at all stages ) areas of learning which , though not separately identified , are nonetheless ‘ clearly required ’ . |
| 19 | If Disneyland , which is only 150 acres in size , can attract 10 million visitors a year , the opportunity must exist for us to attract our own type of tourist . |
| 20 | Its sense of smell must function for it to assess horses it has not met before , and also to fully recognise old companions it may meet in a different environment . |
| 21 | ‘ A ’ level entrants and mature students who wish to join the HND course must enrol for the three-week Conversion Course ( two weeks of which are residential at the Jordanstown campus early in September ) . |
| 22 | In particular , programs using graphics or requiring additional software routines or hardware devices will be difficult in this respect , and the programmer must cater for any intended transfer from the outset by establishing common features such as a compatible screen grid-size and compatible device characteristics . |
| 23 | Moreover , the government had earlier proposed that Parliament should sit for three days a week , instead of five . |
| 24 | There is a longstanding belief , in many walks of life , that basic preparation should suffice for a lifetime of practice . |
| 25 | This course should last for three weeks — if a monthly period occurs during this time , the pessaries should be continued throughout the period . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 27 | All students who have become temporary residents in Northern Ireland and have been accepted at the University should apply for a Medical Card through the University Health Centre . |
| 28 | This bottled preserve should keep for about six months . |
| 29 | The petitioning creditor must prepare for the hearing a list of all those creditors who have given notice of their intention to appear at the hearing and hand it in at the hearing(r6.24) . |
| 30 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |