Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 2 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |
| 3 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 4 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 5 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
| 6 | Yes well I 'll go fortnightly for a little while then it 'll tail off . |
| 7 | One might pay more for a private company because a pre-acquisition investigation could be more thorough . |
| 8 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 9 | It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ? |
| 10 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 11 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 12 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 13 | Only a truly successful 24-hour electronic trading system , like Globex , could compete directly for the European derivative markets . |
| 14 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 15 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I suppose you could go there for a new typewriter , though as I say , they 're mainly interested in bulk orders . |
| 17 | You know , you could pay more for a flashy car . ’ |
| 18 | A party spokeswoman , Lourdes Ortiz , remarked : ‘ It does n't seem possible , but the workers may vote again for the Socialist machine . ’ |
| 19 | If those Labour voters work out that ‘ culture of co-operation ’ means they ought to vote tactically for the Liberal Democrats — and they do seem to have worked it out at Newbury last week — it 's curtains for yours truly . ’ |
| 20 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 21 | The Government warned that it would apply only for a short period . |
| 22 | He hoped that it would express disquiet at the circumstances of the Tully-West shooting and would call publicly for an independent inquiry . |
| 23 | They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run . |
| 24 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 25 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 26 | AS SOON as she arrives back from her American lecture tour tonight , Mrs Thatcher will head straight for a glittering parlour in central London . |
| 27 | If you do he will head straight for the nearest snag and you will be extremely fortunate to pull him out again . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 29 | Recording will begin shortly for a second title , Better Than Life , which is due in the autumn . |
| 30 | The internal Labour pressure group that will meet officially for the first time in Stirling aims to unite and organise women from both wings of the party as well as from the constituencies and trades unions . |