Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked Theda , yes , she did , but she felt Benedict could do better for himself , even if Theda could not . |
| 2 | It also questioned whether Rosyth could compete effectively for this business against firms in the Far East with their lower cost base and sites on the main tanker routes . |
| 3 | The old , wild Africa in which rhinos like Samia could wander freely for ever is gone for good ; but at least she is alive and safe , seemingly unconcerned by the fact that her world has shrunk to 10,000 acres of thornbush inside an electric fence . |
| 4 | Former Middlesbrough midfielder Mark Burke could line up for Wolves . |
| 5 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 6 | McGee could come in for Andy Mockler , who is the latest injury casualty and leaves McHale with a depleted squad . |
| 7 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 8 | Herbert asked whether Grace could provide similarly for John to develop his ideas and she , ‘ absolutely flummoxed ’ , replied of course not . |
| 9 | The much smaller sensitivities favoured by Lindzen could account only for minuscule fraction of Cretaceous and Jurassic warmth . |
| 10 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |