Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] [conj] for " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter .
2 It should be clear that for total injections and total withdrawals to remain equal requires that a rising interest rate be accompanied by a falling level of income , and vice versa .
3 As olivine has a much lower critical concentration than plagioclase ( see equation ( 1 ) ) , the scale of olivine layering should be smaller than for plagioclase , as is observed .
4 Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second .
5 Alternatively , it might be greater if for example the price in Q's contract was £106 or if he himself is liable to Q for breach of contract .
6 Life could be difficult except for one thing .
7 They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush .
8 The transactions costs for trading round lots of shares ( e. g. one hundred shares ) may be lower than for odds lots .
9 The twenty fifth anniversary may be special but for some fans whatever they do the band just ca n't go wrong .
10 Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice .
11 Like everything else in elephant capture , this is a hazardous operation and would be impossible but for the presence of the trained koonkies .
12 I thought the idea of kids doing their own thing was that it would be cheap and for everybody , not a clique .
13 For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors .
14 ( For the index would be zero/02 and for , the Rawlsian case , 42/02 . )
15 This man would be unidentifiable except for the inscription on Mary Freemantle 's tomb in the church at Hinton : ‘ Mary Freemantle , d. of John Newton Gent .
16 Her face would be pale except for two red spots high on her cheekbones .
17 If the action continued , he argues , damage would result to his business or personal interests which would be irreparable and for which the subsequent payment of compensation would be an inadequate remedy .
18 However , the really important area of application is to problems which would be linear but for a few ( separable ) nonlinear terms and here it can be very effective .
19 Certainly frequency will be higher than for any but the heaviest TV campaign , but it will hardly be dramatic .
20 The minimum in the potential function will therefore be at a shorter internuclear distance , and the vibration frequency will be higher than for the molecule .
21 In these cases the degree course requirements will be higher than for other courses .
22 The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages , 24 .
23 So although the quantity of money required will be larger in the case of monthly payment , the velocity of circulation will be lower than for weekly payment ( assuming total spending is the same ) .
24 It will be clear that for this approach an artefact which already embodies a categorization process is clearly distinguished from a natural object which does not .
25 The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more .
26 Generally , the duty of confidence owed by ex-employees will be less than for current employees who should always act in their employer 's best interests .
27 What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ?
  Next page