Example sentences of "could [vb infin] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 2 | No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law . |
| 3 | A crucial factor in the development was the growth of property-owning by towns , probably so that rent income could compensate for deficiencies of toll revenue . |
| 4 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 5 | However , the fear remained that excluding the working man from an involvement in the national political system could make for problems . |
| 6 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
| 7 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 8 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 9 | She knew that just one of these flimsy sheets of paper could buy for Johnny — and Bella too — a mind-bogglingly large quantity of goodies . |
| 10 | For example , some dart-playing pupils found how many stamps they could buy for £1 by using the fact that treble 17 is $1 . |
| 11 | This could include for example : |
| 12 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 13 | ‘ I could wait for dark , bypass the current in the fence , climb over , sneak up to the house , stick a bug on one of the windows and hope they would n't see it . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Whitehouse , in turn , began to organise those organisations on whom she felt she could count for support . |
| 15 | There , I felt , we could chat for hours without the fear of stepping back absentmindedly and continuing the conversation from a hospital bed in Fort William . |
| 16 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |
| 17 | IF Mr Deaves can not sell his mansion , he could qualify for state handouts for even longer than a year . |
| 18 | Those with training in other performance skills , variety , singers and dancers , should consult Equity about the means whereby they could qualify for membership . |
| 19 | You 'd be independent and I could babysit for Maggie . |
| 20 | If he were careful , he could survive for years and , for the first time in his life , do exactly what he wanted . |
| 21 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 22 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 23 | Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings . |
| 24 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 25 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 26 | There was n't much they could do for Martinho . |
| 27 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 28 | The people could look for deliverance to no one but themselves . |
| 29 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 30 | Liese explained how I could look for answers ; but first , silently , I had to formulate my question . |