Example sentences of "that [vb mod] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is envisaged that the warranties will encompass the operations of the business , taxation , the statutory accounts of Name for the year ended 24th June , 19XX and the marketable title to the properties and be subject to a maximum claim limit of £2,000,000 and a de minimis level of £250,000 that must be exceeded for the vendors to have any liability under the warranties . |
| 2 | ‘ That must be upsetting for the innkeepers . ’ |
| 3 | The control of fire is the mark of the civilization man aspires to , but constitutes a kind of sacrilege , a " robbery of divine nature " , that must be paid for with immense suffering : human aspiration must inevitably bring man into conflict with the divine realm . |
| 4 | I thought oh that 'll be smashing for the snow just sweep |
| 5 | She 's been the lav that 'll be doing for now . |
| 6 | And we were rather thinking that might be looking for another job very soon . |
| 7 | The goal was to implant " standard " English forms ( linguistic and cultural ) by inculcating a " love " of literature ( the most that might be hoped for in the elementary sector ) .71 Within the higher sectors ( preparatory , secondary , grammar , and public schools , as well as colleges of various kinds ) the aim was much broader . |
| 8 | All that might be allowed for in this context was that individual cases might be considered if I particularly pressed " , and it has to be added that this was in full accordance with the AFHQ instruction of 7 March which stated that " it is not the policy of she British Government to encourage any of those persons who become a British responsibility to put forward claims that they are NOT Soviet Citizens " . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ That could be serviced for around £100 a month when the rent would be about £25 a week anyway . ’ |
| 10 | 45 kilos of plastic Much of that could be saved for other uses and not simply destroyed . |
| 11 | Moreover , in the light of the Americans ' deep-seated anti-colonialism , neutrality was the most that could be hoped for in the problems that would face Britain in converting her Empire into the Commonwealth at a prudent and realistic pace . |
| 12 | He hated prisons , even the so-called modern set-ups where the relations between prisoner and prison-officer were the best that could be hoped for , and violence was minimal . |
| 13 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 14 | In the years of sharp pruning of public-sector expenditure , and at a time when a comprehensive housing programme embracing improvement , clearance , redevelopment and new building lay beyond the grasp of the Ministry of Health , the most that could be hoped for in the 1920s was the amelioration of a small number of the worst houses . |
| 15 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 16 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 17 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 18 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 19 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 20 | Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects . |
| 21 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 22 | That could be used for potatoes or any plants in the corners . |
| 23 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 24 | He could not ask her to define it further , that would be asking for flattery . |
| 25 | It would only mean he might let her down again , and that would be asking for it . |
| 26 | Not to apologize — that would be asking for explanations he was n't able to give right now — but to see that she was all right . |
| 27 | In setting up a file with a number of dummy records , these dummies will be filled with a character such as & or • that will be tested for during serial processing . |
| 28 | I should be interested to hear how that will be paid for , because in addition to giving £200 million a year the Labour party is committed to regional development agencies , to investment in first-class infrastructure for the area , high-speed rail links and other exciting prospects for the region . |
| 29 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 30 | The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular . |