Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] a considerable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintaining this configuration requires that the state apparatus should operate with a considerable degree of autonomy from the dominant class fraction , and that the leaders who assemble and co-ordinate the ruling ‘ power bloc ’ should appear on the political stage as independent actors . |
| 2 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 3 | THE Queen might last for a considerable time but people are going to be questioning the role of the monarchy more and more . |
| 4 | Innovation may occur after a considerable time interval from invention . |
| 5 | The other point in this regard is that a requirement for the tenant to obtain the landlord 's consent prior to making an application for planning permission could result in a considerable delay in the application being made in circumstances where the tenant requires the planning permission rather urgently , eg in connection with its fascia or signage , hence the amendment suggested below . |
| 6 | It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved . |
| 7 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 8 | Despite concessions to the Marxist wing of the party — including a reduction in the size of the SDF and a characterization of the 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty as a " temporary " arrangement — the policy , if adopted by the party as a whole , would amount to a considerable revision of the unilateralist defence programme which the SDPJ had maintained since 1955 . |
| 9 | He suggested that the air campaign would continue for a considerable period before a ground attack would be considered . |
| 10 | In Romania the legacy of the late President Ceausescu 's National Stalinism' will persist for a considerable time and the directions of change can not easily be predicted . |
| 11 | That will act as a considerable encouragment to greater parental responsibility . |
| 12 | The plant is more at home in marshy conditions than in the aquarium , where it will grow to a considerable height . |
| 13 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Hon. Gentleman was not a member of the Standing Committee , so he may be unaware that the disposal programme will start in the autumn and will continue for a considerable time . |
| 14 | Luckily , the Oase pump is ‘ pokey ’ and can cope with a considerable head without appreciable loss of flow rate . |
| 15 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 16 | It can come as a considerable shock when reality is forced upon them and their life on return is not as wonderful as they had anticipated . |
| 17 | not only which er erm one of the big strategies of ours is using er and we think we can get into a considerable number of homes with leaflet drops etcetera erm er by using that er arrow . |