Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] for by " in BNC.

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1 The recommendations of the Reed report , that mentally ill offenders should be cared for by local NHS psychiatric services , could tip the balance even more , said Jim Walker .
2 If your special request can only be met at an additional cost , that cost will either be invoiced to you prior to the departure or should be paid for by you locally whilst abroad .
3 For example , Israel has since 1967 followed the general rule that all government purchases — including , of course , arms — should be paid for by offsets .
4 The Association of Charity Officers says its members do n't want to get locked into paying fees for care which should be paid for by local authorities .
5 Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket .
6 Human children , if they are to survive and become adults , must be cared for by adults at least until adolescence .
7 The reason for including R in the picture is that , at least in all existing organisms , successful recombination requires the presence of enzymes , which in turn must be coded for by genes ; it is such a gene that is symbolized by R. The symbol r in Figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective in bringing about recombination .
8 The number of days in a month will obviously depend on the month in question ; thus if a contract requires goods to be paid for within one month of delivery , and goods are delivered on 19 February , they must be paid for by 19 March ( see Dodds v Walker [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1061 ) .
9 Thus if goods are to be paid for within two months of delivery and are delivered on 5 October , they must be paid for by close of business — or midnight ? — on 5 December , the day of delivery being excluded from the two-month period ( Webb v Fairmainer ( 1838 ) 3 M & W 473 ) .
10 Tickets reserved by telephone must be paid for by post ( please enclose a stamped addressed envelope ) or in person within one week of booking or three days before the event , whichever is the sooner , otherwise the reservation will automatically be cancelled .
11 To the English , no settlement could be envisaged without consideration of their king 's claim to the crown of France , a claim which might be compensated for by the grant of other territories in France , to be held in full sovereignty .
12 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
13 Relatedly , it afforded the wife no financial privacy ( except by couples opting to be taxed as two single persons , which ‘ paid ’ financially only if the loss of the husband 's allowance could be compensated for by a lower amount of income subject to a tax band higher than the basic rate ) .
14 Furthermore , it found that , although birth certificates were not required by law for any kind of legal transaction in the United Kingdom , there could be occasions on which a birth certificate could be called for by , for instance , an employer or public institution .
15 On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there .
16 Specially recruited supervisory staff could be paid for by the local authority or by some other scheme initiator .
17 It could be paid for by a freeze on upper tax thresholds and personal allowances which would save the Treasury over £850m .
18 Doyle and Nixon had found that the toxicological activity of the mussel extracts in the rat bioassay was greater than could be accounted for by okadaic acid alone .
19 Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 .
20 This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden .
21 The vegetation of the field was analysed by ordination and correlation techniques which showed that only a minor part of the variation in species distribution could be accounted for by underlying edaphic factors , though in the peripheral areas of the pasture the presence of hedges and trees accounted for significant changes in the vegetation — e.g. Dadtylis glomerata occurred mainly in or close to the shade of the trees .
22 But this neglects the force of Althusser 's emphasis on Marxism as itself a theoretical practice with its own history of epistemological self-correction , a possibility derived from the work of the mathematician Jean Cavaillès , who stressed the degree to which the history of mathematics , particularly set theory , could be accounted for by the dialectical development of the concept .
23 While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization .
24 Depressingly , there was no evidence that this happened much in language work at University level , even in in-service and BEd work ( though this could be accounted for by the pressure of time on PGCEs , and the tendency to teach general research methods at Masters and Diploma levels ) .
25 All this could be accounted for by the fact that Picasso was working on a very large scale and found it necessary to simplify his technique and adopt a bolder approach .
26 As Wynn Godley pointed out , public expenditure during 1971–75 increased by 5.5bn more than could be accounted for by announced policy changes , i.e. by an extra 5% of GDP .
27 The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies .
28 Of the estimated post-collision convergence of up to 2500 km about 500 km could be accounted for by underthrusting beneath the Himalayas and southern Tibet , another 200 300 km by thrusting and crustal thickening in the various ranges bordering the northern perimeter of the Tibetan Plateau ( such as the Pamir , Tien Shan , Altai and Nan Shan ranges ) and perhaps a further 300–400 km by the crustal shortening arising from gentle folding within the Tibetan Plateau itself .
29 Between 500 and 1000 km of north-south crustal shortening could be accounted for by an equivalent amount of lateral crustal movement arising from the ‘ ploughing ’ motion of the Indian Plate as it moved northwards and displaced lithospheric blocks in the Eurasian Plate .
30 This suggested effects far beyond what could be accounted for by lung cancer deaths alone .
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