Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Tomorrow we are holding a party in our bungalow , which has room for about 60 people , and I imagine about that number may come .
2 Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms .
3 does that mean that the assessment for each church will remain the same for a couple of years ?
4 In this case , buying and selling an equal number of contracts for each leg may lead to an unbalanced spread .
5 The amount of funds needed for each quarter will depend on the gravity of the problems encountered there and the population density etc .
6 The emission charges for each pollutant would have to be adjusted to take into account increases in the number of emission sources ( if air quality is not to deteriorate ) and it would have to be adjusted to reflect increases in general price levels .
7 The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings .
8 For each country will have specific problems related to its own social , political and economic structure .
9 The fact that subjects answered all questions for each stimulus may have caused them to restrict their interpretation of individual tasks such that there was no overlap between tasks .
10 The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth .
11 Our retention for each year will vary .
12 Part 2 of the guidelines for each team should cover growth targets and new types of work as set out in the plan
13 The struggle does not end , for each age must reaffirm the continuity of the nation in the face of powerful discontinuities and the appearance of striking similarities between members of different nations .
14 The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease .
15 Working against the background of known developments and plans for the torch company for the coming year a single idea for each area will start the programme off .
16 The general output and budget functions for each bureau will differ among bureaucrats according to their preferences for income and the several kinds of perquisites ( Niskanen 1975 ) .
17 Independent switches for each light will make it easier to create the appropriate atmosphere .
18 Travis smiled , and as Leith suddenly realised how she and Naylor with their arms about each other must look to anyone coming in , self-conscious all of a sudden , she stepped out of Naylor 's hold .
19 This event only lasted two days , but the amount of coinage and artefacts lost during that period would seem to have been enormous .
20 Any inflation occurring during that period will reduce the real value of the redemption payment and hence the real yield .
21 It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme .
22 He rang it again at seven o'clock at night to warn the gleaners that their work for that day must end .
23 As someone interested in trying to promote industrial regeneration and further growth in the north-east does my hon. Friend agree that the additional burdens laid on businesses in regions such as his own by the absurd idea of the imposition of a regional tier of government and the increased taxation necessary to pay for that tier would have an adverse effect on local business , would increase costs , would reduce competitiveness and would help to drive business and jobs away from his region ?
24 Obviously , the pupils would want or need a boarding education , and the reasons for that preference would have to be stated — on all this , the Report was embarrassingly vague .
25 It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … .
26 If one market is dominant , returns for that market will lead those for other markets .
27 If team nursing is the pattern , then this has to be explained and the other members of the team for that shift can introduce themselves as and when necessary .
28 For example , if there is an imbalance of the sexes in an age group either through natural variation in the sex ratio or because men have been killed during war or are at war , the overall marriage rate for that age will tend to fall temporarily and that for the less numerous sex will rise .
29 That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch .
30 Touching the face through that gauze would have seemed like sacrilege , so he chose the hair instead .
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