Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may work for a lottery system where the buyer buys the fun of expectation but it does not — or should not — apply to opportunities . |
| 2 | That may account for their ability to survive such an ejection . |
| 3 | Against this notion , the reformers contended that , in Bentham 's words , ‘ each should count for one and nobody for more than one ’ . |
| 4 | The news is that heterosexuals had become infected with H I V , the virus that leads to AIDS , ten to fifteen years ago , and that the numbers were doubling ten to fifteen years ago , that 's what it means when we hear AIDS cases , and what that must mean for today , is horrifying . |
| 5 | ‘ Neil has brought an awful lot of success to this club , and that must count for something , ’ he said . |
| 6 | She said her parents liked him tremendously and surely that must count for something even in this day and age ! |
| 7 | Surely that must account for it ? |
| 8 | Because it 's all about enhancing the area of the war memorial , and I think that should go for next year 's enhancement . |
| 9 | That should suffice for her social obligations , she felt . |
| 10 | But it 's still a terrible thought that a man like that should die for us . ’ |
| 11 | Others are expected to follow suit next week and some may go for even higher rates for their borrowers . |
| 12 | Some may bloom for only a few weeks , but their display is beautiful . |
| 13 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |
| 14 | The survival of H. contortus infection on tropical pastures is variable depending on the climate and degree of shade , but the infective larvae are relatively resistant to desiccation and some may survive for 1-3 months on pasture or in faeces . |
| 15 | The organism induces decreased acid secretion , at least in the early phase of the disease but this may persist for weeks or even months . |
| 16 | In exploring what this may mean for professional practice , it may be helpful to look at other attempts to reconstrue the nature of professional activity . |
| 17 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 18 | This may make for difficulties in terms of care . |
| 19 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 20 | This may occur for various reasons ; the suspect may have died or be below the age of criminal responsibility , the victim may not wish to press charges or a witness may be unwilling , or unable , to give evidence or a person already in detention after conviction admits to further offences . |
| 21 | As we have seen , this may apply for perfectly sound reasons to research where the determinand or matrix is especially exotic . |
| 22 | This may account for the relatively high level of interest being expressed in the issue . |
| 23 | There were probably plants living in hilly regions from quite early which have left little fossil record , and this may account for some of the gaps in the preserved fossils . |
| 24 | This may account for the ‘ pushing out ’ of the undersized fry . |
| 25 | Mention is also made of a small attached building heated by a hypocaust at the south-west corner , suggested as a possible priest 's house , and this may account for the so-called ‘ hypocaust ’ tiles found on the site , presumably box-flues . |
| 26 | This may account for certain background noises in the tracks ! |
| 27 | While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay . |
| 28 | Nowhere north of the Tagus was there a class like the landless rural proletariat of Andalusia and Estremadura , and this may account for the relative political stability of Castile : only one nineteenth-century revolt started in the classic wheat lands . |
| 29 | This may account for his daughter 's distancing herself in her books from the commercial classes and her somewhat self-conscious identification with the upper classes . |
| 30 | A visit to France , the details of which remain unclear , also led to the accusation that he had associated with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [ q.v. ] there : this may account for the apparent loss of royal favour by the mid-1570s . |