Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears . |
| 2 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 3 | Thiemens told a January meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston that similar isotope effects may exist for other diatomic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen which , like oxygen , have one isotope much more abundant than others . |
| 4 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 5 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 6 | If a substantial loss has been suffered you may be able to sue the vendor , and if you lack financial resources you may qualify for legal aid . |
| 7 | If when you pay prescription charges you think that you may qualify for free prescriptions , ask the chemist for a receipt form FP 57 ( EC 57 in Scotland ) . |
| 8 | Full-time students may qualify for generous discounts on fees . |
| 9 | Applicants with suitable experience in industry may qualify for special awards . |
| 10 | You may opt for extra services such as private banking , insurance planning and tax reviews . |
| 11 | Graduates may opt for departmental or unit management , or specialize in personnel , marketing , finance of general administration within a larger company . |
| 12 | Adequate demand must exist for external currency loans from corporations and governments . |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S dairy industry must prepare for likely cutbacks of 20pc or more as the European Community moves to eliminate distorting production subsidies . |
| 14 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 15 | So I if I put that in , I must apologize for misleading the panel . |
| 16 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 17 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 18 | We really should wait for Frejji to come back and fix them . ’ |
| 19 | The principal recipients are the Local Authorities and the LEC 's , although there is some debate at present as to whether organisations such as British Coal should qualify for direct payment ( for the moment I have assumed that will not be the case ) . |
| 20 | Other main recommendations were that : ( i ) Congress should create the post of assistant secretary for transport in charge of security and intelligence ; ( ii ) the US government should directly manage security at domestic airports and conduct a study to assess the safety of US airports ; ( iii ) the State Department rather than the airlines should conduct negotiations with foreign governments to meet security standards at airports used by US carriers ; ( iv ) victims of terrorist attacks aimed against the US government should qualify for special financial compensation ; and ( v ) the State Department should take steps to ensure that relatives of victims were given " prompt , humane and courteous treatment and services in overseas disasters " . |
| 21 | But you must watch for underhand dealings , if not deception , in early April and July . |
| 22 | If , as I must assume for present purposes , the plaintiffs have a good cause of action in professional negligence against the third party , then it must be at least possible , if not indeed likely , that the damages recoverable by the plaintiffs from the third party would include damages under at least some of these heads . |
| 23 | I do n't think we should look for fundamental changes now but we must look at the configuration of services |
| 24 | After looking for agoraphobic avoidance , the therapist should look for social avoidance . |
| 25 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 26 | From time to time , more goods are produced than can profitably be sold and , as a result , capital must look for other forms of investment . |
| 27 | To understand how his new stance was formulated , one must search for implicit features in the previous stance , when his target was the English monarchy . |
| 28 | There is little enough of that in the outback and one must search for alternative modes of expression , perhaps among the varieties of modern art which have taught us to see in different ways . |
| 29 | Despite an initially hostile atmosphere , with demonstrations organized by the regime , the talks concluded on Nov. 13 with an agreement that representatives of the National Assembly should meet for direct talks with Aristide . |
| 30 | All animals must compete for limited resources , but the competition may not be expressed in unrestrained battle to the death . |