Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unclear where responsibility for child-minders , registration of playgroups , etc. would rest in the new organisation , but it was possible that the new provisions in the Children Bill going through parliament would allow for those services to be provided through education departments . |
| 2 | Affiliated organisations , Constituency Labour Parties and Commons Members of Parliament may nominate for each of the offices of leader and deputy leader , one Commons Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party attending conference ( unless excused attendance as provided in sub-section ( c ) below ) as a delegate or ex-officio delegate . |
| 3 | ’ I ca n't see how any democratic member of Parliament can vote for such a sloppy bill , which would be the thin end of a very dangerous web . |
| 4 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 5 | If , as Engels assumes in The Origin , primitive societies contained no inequality , then it would follow , according to Marxist thought , that a different , simpler theory of history would apply for these societies . |
| 6 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 7 | While accepting that this lethal practice of placing 15 and 16-year-olds in prison must end for those on remand , the Home Secretary refuses to consider removing those serving sentences from the prison system . |
| 8 | Nor did it seem apparent to all that the war fought at sea , the damage which might be inflicted upon enemy vessels and morale , and the consequences which victory at sea could have for those who lived in areas close to coasts , were all part of a wider war which could not be restricted to the fighting on land . |