Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum you should pay is 48p for a minute ; I 've checked it and I can place a concisely worded advert in about 45 seconds , and at cheap rate that works out at 27p . |
| 2 | The best you can do is silks for a jockey skullcap , but should n't we be able to buy hats covered with light or reflective materials , instead of velvet , for road use ? |
| 3 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 4 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 5 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 6 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 7 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I wonder how he would have done in today 's game , do you think there would have been room for him today ? |
| 9 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 10 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 11 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 12 | It must have been hell for you . |
| 13 | It must have been murder for our mum . ’ |
| 14 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 15 | There was a strange moment then , when he knew the bastard was still in the room , still watching him , and all he could do was wait for him to leave . |
| 16 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |