Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This guide contains information about specific medical conditions which may affect older people in residential and nursing homes and other places where they may be cared for — such as hotels and guest houses . |
| 2 | Once the young are born they may be cared for by both their parents for many days . |
| 3 | At the meeting , the most important point to convey is that your alternative proposals need not be to their detriment , either in financial terms or in the provision of any accommodation they may be hoping for in a new development on the site . |
| 4 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |
| 5 | We hear they may be trying for 2.5 volts to reduce heat on the part . |
| 6 | Prior to maturity they may be exchanged for shares of the subsidiary which , at the option of the bondholder , are either immediately redeemed or immediately exchanged for ordinary shares of the parent . |
| 7 | Those who give the impression that they are fishing for information ; they may be looking for a recommendation for somebody else who may be suitable to approach . |
| 8 | However , if you attempt to arrest any man or woman here on a charge of vagrancy I will see they are defended in your court — and in any higher court to which they may be sent for trial . |
| 9 | Batches may be produced to order and forwarded direct to the customer , as in the production of subcomponents for another manufacturer , or they may be made for stock . |
| 10 | However , where the amount to which the shareholders will be entitled is small , they may be sold for the benefit of the company or , if no premium exists , allotted to the underwriters . |
| 11 | It is often ‘ security considerations ’ — fears about security and control — which exacerbate the physical conditions of prisoners ; for example , they may be left for 23 hours a day in their cells because they are not trusted to be let out without a high degree of staff-intensive supervision . |
| 12 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 13 | The skins are sold to the rug trade and in future they may be used for making garments . |
| 14 | They may be used for simple emphasis , as in ( 5 ) ( c ) , or to highlight some property , implied by the noun but still in some way surprising as in ( 5 ) ( a ) , or for the sake of a contrast , as in ( 5 ) ( b ) . |
| 15 | Likewise , children with ‘ acquired childhood language disorder ’ may be recognised as having similar kinds of communication difficulties ( irrespective of specific causes ) and , on the basis of this diagnosis , they may be recommended for certain kinds of therapy ( Cantwell and Baker 1987 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ They may be making for Kenmore . ’ |
| 17 | And once the ships came , they could hinder the disembarkation and delay the eleven hundred in their march , wherever they may be making for . |
| 18 | Any number and combination of these types may be specified and they may be updated for each offline run . |
| 19 | The mention of several major front-of-camera elements in connection with manipulating the image demonstrates that the two aspects are inseparable in practice , though they may be divided for ease of explanation and clarity of illustration . |
| 20 | They may be modified for specialist tasks such as roof work when they are often fitted with restraint devices or stabilisers . |
| 21 | When I arrived at the airport to check in , I was surprised by the amount of security , I decided they must be looking for drug traffickers . |
| 22 | If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’ |
| 23 | If the other parent is still living , they must be cared for too . |
| 24 | They must be held for five to ten years , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , whatever the basis for the major enumerative schemes , they must be judged for their suitability for application in current libraries and information centres . |
| 26 | The number of days in a month will obviously depend on the month in question ; thus if a contract requires goods to be paid for within one month of delivery , and goods are delivered on 19 February , they must be paid for by 19 March ( see Dodds v Walker [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1061 ) . |
| 27 | Thus if goods are to be paid for within two months of delivery and are delivered on 5 October , they must be paid for by close of business — or midnight ? — on 5 December , the day of delivery being excluded from the two-month period ( Webb v Fairmainer ( 1838 ) 3 M & W 473 ) . |
| 28 | But they farm as a living , so they must be paid for looking after wildlife habitats . |
| 29 | ‘ Data , like facts , do not speak for themselves : they must be spoken for ’ ( Satarov 1993 : 73 ) . |
| 30 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |