Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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) ) . |
| 4 | A ‘ good ’ story may run for four or five weeks , after which the media and the public tire of it . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Moreover , the government had earlier proposed that Parliament should sit for three days a week , instead of five . |
| 8 | This course should last for three weeks — if a monthly period occurs during this time , the pessaries should be continued throughout the period . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Green Believers in the rich world will not save their planet unless they guarantee the sustainability of poor-world economies : rich-world money must pay for poor-world industry to go green . |
| 11 | Such factors as incentives , motivation , perseverance , and the like may account for some of the proportion allocated to education ; and these factors may be partly the effects of education and partly its causes . |
| 12 | If you are having a baby for the first time : Your labour may last for 24 hours . |
| 13 | Applicants with suitable experience in industry may qualify for special awards . |
| 14 | Before the swing is even given consideration the search may start for some new equipment ; maybe a driver that hits a high draw from the tee . |
| 15 | Under ‘ Remand homes ’ it says every county and borough must arrange for some special remand home to be used ‘ for children and young persons only , and to which older persons are not to be sent ’ . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S dairy industry must prepare for likely cutbacks of 20pc or more as the European Community moves to eliminate distorting production subsidies . |
| 17 | who wishes to " resign " his seat must apply for one of the above offices of profit and thereby disqualify himself from sitting . |
| 18 | The lower scale figure should continue for older cars : although the current four-year break period is acceptable , consideration might be given to using a period of three years . |
| 19 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 20 | The encouragement of professional readership would allow for informed debate of issues amongst teachers . |
| 21 | Such substantial stratospheric ozone depletion would last for several years and the initial survivors of a nuclear war would have to face a great increase in biologically active UV-B radiation . |
| 22 | I charged over rocks and taking a run at sand , found that the wheel would skate for short stretches . |
| 23 | Only one certainty remains : in future the great buildings of Sussex would be secular , and a new form of patronage would appear for local artists and craftsmen . |
| 24 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 25 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |
| 26 | Do you want to comment on what five thousand less than your figure would do for affordable housing ? |
| 27 | Each card will pay for two or three short calls or an eight-minute call home . |
| 28 | The mistake , of either party , is to assume that the coalition will continue for other issues . |
| 29 | So there is little chance that the 1993 programme will go for short-term audience gain at the expense of long-term credibility . |
| 30 | The Bar Council 's equal opportunities programme will account for some 10% of total expenditure this year . |