Example sentences of "which [modal v] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such reversals , which may last for a period of several years , have been observed on the east coast . |
| 2 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 3 | Now the Army is to give every soldier an extra £10 a month , which should pay for a weekly three-minute call . |
| 4 | Where solicitors want a " consent order " , provided it does not relate to a possession order of residential premises , and is not for an order in matrimonial proceedings , the Court staff can now sign it , which should provide for a quicker return ; it must be clear from the face of the order that it is " by consent " . |
| 5 | Bob Shorter , the contracts director for Highland Health Board , said the news was encouraging , but stressed that money to cover running costs would be just as important as money which might pay for a new hospital . |
| 6 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
| 7 | However , with the solitary exception of Sophie Haibel 's mention of ‘ extraordinary grimaces with his mouth , ’ which might qualify for a complex motor tic , Simkin then proceeds to deflate his argument by begging the question when he assigns inappropriately several examples of Mozart 's humorous hyperactivity to the category of motor ‘ Tourettisms . ’ |
| 8 | If Zafferana was saved from the lava , which could flow for a year or more , it would be ‘ a complete fluke ’ , he said . |
| 9 | It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session . |
| 10 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 11 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 12 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 13 | He then took some food which would last for a while and packed it into his bag . |
| 14 | He put forward in mid-September a peace proposal envisaging the creation of an interim legislative assembly , which would sit for a year pending elections . |
| 15 | All of which would make for a rave review , were it not for the fact that , for all their charm , the Jays ' every move oozes lamentable irrelevance . |
| 16 | Two hypotheses are worth mentioning , either of which would account for a significant number of cases . |
| 17 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 18 | On the one hand it proposes a range of socially useful products , and on the other , new forms of technology which would provide for a human-enhancing and liberating means of making the socially useful products . |
| 19 | We are now in a second slump , which will continue for a long time yet , and unemployment is rising . |
| 20 | Most routes will now be franchised to a single operator , which will bid for a monopoly on each one . |
| 21 | The Unified Leadership ( UNLU ) claimed these ‘ are more than temporary committees which will operate for a limited period of time . |
| 22 | The initial reaction is usually shocked disbelief which can last for a long period , while the person may feel very detached from the world or completely at sea . |
| 23 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |