Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 2 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 3 | Anyway , defeat in the County Shield may be for the best because , let's not be hasty , but after just four games we look like having Division Three wrapped up . |
| 4 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |
| 5 | The issue may be for cash or in exchange for some other asset ( eg a company or business ) . |
| 6 | Satisfactory though casing may be for books which a careless age does not expect to be long-lived , it can not compare in craftsmanship and durability with the old method properly practised . |
| 7 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 8 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 9 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) A tender offer must be for cash whereas a partial offer may be for securities of the offeror . |
| 11 | Viscerally , political leaders in all parties recognise that Germany is moving towards reunification , however uncomfortable that prospect may be for one of Germany 's wartime adversaries . |
| 12 | From personal experience , the greater hazard may be for the bride . |
| 13 | Moreover , the ability of state enterprises to maximize business objectives depends on the nature of the political pressures on them , and indeed , a greater ‘ business ’ rather than ‘ political ’ orientation ( Zif 1981 ) may flow from clear directives of the political authorities ; in other words the dominant political objective may be for the enterprise to behave in a ‘ commercial ’ manner , so that the maximization of business objectives may be a reflection of greater dependence on political authorities . |
| 14 | The licence may be for a fixed , perhaps renewable , period of time or there may be no mention of duration , in which case it can be assumed that the licence will last as long as the software is subject to copyright protection . |
| 15 | The innovation may be for a building or construction project which was completed between 1 January 1987 and 12 October 1990 . |
| 16 | An undeniable attraction of an auction is the possibility that some undervalued item may be for sale . |
| 17 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 18 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 19 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 20 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |