Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 2 | If the patient has problems with his employer , he may need to apply for professional help through his social worker . |
| 3 | If current cultivars do not adapt , breeders may need to look for new varieties which cope better with milder winters . |
| 4 | I should like to know for certain how … |
| 5 | The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information . |
| 6 | In retrospect , the ref should have blown for full-time at this point . |
| 7 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 8 | Furthermore the British people might begin to clamour for drastic changes in foreign policy if they were asked to undergo yet more austerity . |
| 9 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 10 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 11 | Cos we will I 'll come dressed for dirty work tomorrow |
| 12 | Now he says he 'll continue to campaign for other former employees who 've been left without pensions . |
| 13 | While the market might continue softening for psychological and cyclical reasons , its woes would probably not be compounded by fraud-tainted defaults . |
| 14 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 15 | ‘ If I were Newley , I 'd want to know for certain , even if I intended to go through with the deal . ’ |
| 16 | Since April 1989 all firms " competitive on foreign markets " could apply to register for independent foreign trading rights , although a ceiling of 6,000 companies actually registered was set for 1989 . |
| 17 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 18 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the differences in fit from what would be expected of multifactorial inheritance are small and the pattern of familial aggregation indicative of a recessive influence ( with affected sibling pairs predominating over parent-offspring pairs ) could have occurred for other reasons , as discussed below . |
| 20 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 21 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 22 | In other ways it was really petty and you could get nicked for daft little things . |
| 23 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 24 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 25 | Nothing near as tasty and tender as our … ’ and , her mouth overflowing with steak , beans and croquette potato , Mitzi named an Austrian breed Elisabeth had never heard of ( and did not imagine she would need to remember for future use ) . |
| 26 | If you keep soft water fish you would need to test for general hardness . |
| 27 | Her publicists would have to search for other stars to publicise . |
| 28 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 29 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 30 | Even if , as one study asserts , the USSR pays 50 per cent more for CMEA products than these products command in world markets , the question which matters to the Soviet Union is what she would have to pay for equivalent Western equipment ( and how she would pay for it ) . |