Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , Dinah should disappear for a little ; they must not grow accustomed to her , and he himself had a leading part waiting which demanded full passions ; that of Tamburlaine . |
| 2 | This butter should keep for no more than one month . |
| 3 | We can not now implement the whole of that programme and must look for a more concessive approach , capable of accommodating the competing strengths of individualism . |
| 4 | He later adds : ‘ If you are trying to set him up … you should go for a fairly substantial sum . ’ |
| 5 | Because accessibility and mobility around the organisation are essential , ‘ you should go for the most generalist person you can get ’ , he said . |
| 6 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 7 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |
| 8 | Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages . |
| 9 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 10 | They 'll send for the least Trifle to the other end of a long Street to one of their own Crew , when the very next Neighbour , a Church-man , has it to sell " . |
| 11 | There are some very good authors in the list , but recalling that there has never been a good book on poppies or penstemons , one might wish for a little more innovation in such lists . |
| 12 | It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session . |
| 13 | The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet . |
| 14 | With a little more animation , he could pass for a really handsome man . |
| 15 | You could go for a live-aboard holiday . |
| 16 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 17 | He argues that the walls would have reduced in thickness above the platform , and have acted as the stylobate for the columns of the portico and this could account for the comparatively small diameter of the column drum found on the site ( his p. 16 ) . |
| 18 | Charged solitons moving along the polymer chains could account for the greatly improved conductivity , but , there is a catch that makes their importance questionable . |
| 19 | Gouled , as the sole candidate , was re-elected by direct universal suffrage in June 1981 and April 1987 ; under the terms of the 1981 Constitution the President may serve for no more than two terms . |
| 20 | The Republic of Djibouti ( formerly the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas ) became independent in June 1977 ; under the terms of the 1981 Constitution the President may serve for no more than two six-year terms . |
| 21 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 22 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 23 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 24 | A pea would do for a rather green skull for the skeleton . |
| 25 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 26 | I would hope for a little bipartisan support for the sort of work done , for example , by our drugs liaison officers abroad , who have brought about such successful seizures of heroin and other drugs in recent months . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the probability that we would go for a genuinely original idea may be very high indeed . |
| 28 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 29 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 30 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |