Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BREASTFEEDING — Suckling ; a still nearly universal way of feeding infants and young children in most developing countries , first exclusively by lactation ( full breastfeeding that often lasts about three to six months ) , then introducing supplementary food ( partial breastfeeding that may last for several years until weaning ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 3 | There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers . |
| 4 | Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ? |
| 5 | Cincinnati Bell Inc reports that the Federal arm of its Cincinnati Bell Information Systems won a systems management contract that could run for five years and be worth up to $41m to support the Federal Transportation Computer Center in Washington DC : the centre supports Federal Highway Administration , US Coast Guard , Federal Transit Administration , Research & Special Programs Administration , the Federal Aviation Administration , and the Federal Maritime Administration . |
| 6 | From a consecutive series of 50 referral letters sent by general practitioners in Sunderland to the local department of child psychiatry , 15 items of information were identified that could account for all the information contained in the letters . |
| 7 | He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come . |
| 8 | There ought to be a prayer that would do for all men , all the murdered bodies all over the world . |
| 9 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 10 | She found ‘ a kind of peace that would last for whole half-days at a time without that sinking feeling ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Brazauskas , First Secretary of the republic 's party , said all political forces and ethnic groups should agree on a consensus that would fight for this goal , as well as social justice , human rights , and democracy . |
| 12 | Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ? |
| 13 | Some want the rotation requirement to apply to all companies , regardless of the problems that would cause for smaller practices ; others want it kept to listed and other public interest clients . |
| 14 | Intor is presently conceived as a 600 MW ( thermal ) reactor that would run for 10 years , researching and , we hope , demonstrating the practicability of repeated long pulses burning thermonuclear fuel in a tokamak . |
| 15 | Some of my colleagues will regard this gesture on the part of the Board with pleasure that will make for whole-hearted co-operation on their part . |
| 16 | The green product is now available in Canada at about $14 for a 100 millilitre bottle that will last for ten days — long enough , he says , to cure anyone 's smoking habit . |
| 17 | By far the most controversial view comes from County NatWest which thinks that ‘ confusion will arise , particularly in the eyes of uninformed investors ’ , due to the ‘ plethora of different performance numbers ’ that will emerge for each company . |
| 18 | Basic microeconomic theory suggests that investors will forgo present consumption and invest ( cash ) in the expectation of a future higher return ( initial cash outlay plus dividends or interest ) that will provide for greater future consumption . |
| 19 | Just to make sure the new world order is not left out either , a new scheme is launched this year that will focus for one month on a city in Central or Eastern Europe ( this year Graz , next year Budapest ) . |
| 20 | • To have a mind-set that will strive for continual improvement in editorial quality . |
| 21 | You 'll find whether it be anything with safety , hygiene or security and fraud , there will always be quite rightly a pressure group or an interest group that will push for that rule or regulation . |
| 22 | There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal ‘ myth ’ that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts . |
| 23 | The results of a long-term study presented at the annual conference of the British Institute of Geographers have shown that the use of sewage sludge as a fertilizer can have damaging effects on the soil that can last for thousands of years . |
| 24 | Covenants and bequests form an essential part of the hospice 's income and staff are gratified that can care for more patients and support bereaved families through this sort of help . |
| 25 | The bluefin — a giant predatory fish that can live for 30 years and weigh up to 1,000 pounds — has declined in number by 90 per cent . |
| 26 | Many of these reports should be interpreted with caution in the light of several factors that can account for misleading results . |
| 27 | The aim of the research is to develop a scientific theory of the processes involved in face and person recognition that can account for normal performance , and will help in understanding the different types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by patients who have had strokes . |
| 28 | Features of language that interest theoretical ( academic ) linguists include linguistic competence ( the way in which people decide whether a sentence is grammatical or not ) , language universals ( grammatical principles that apply to all natural languages ) and in finding the simplest , computationally most restricted theory that can account for natural language . |