Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may for some reason go to a Mother and Baby Home for a short period before and after they have the baby , or even go to live with foster parents . |
| 2 | There may for some reason be a substantial delay between the date of the agreement and the grant of the lease during which time the tenant may wish to assign its interest in it . |
| 3 | That let's off more power than one of mine in the lounge . |
| 4 | It does not follow that because a police officer reasonably suspects a person of having committed an arrestable offence , that the person should for that reason alone be arrested . |
| 5 | The Committee is quoting the Heilbron Report , and appears to be saying that if the public thinks that a particular law covers certain activities and in fact it does cover these activities , then it should for that reason continue to cover only these activities . |
| 6 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 7 | But you must up awful square with that . |
| 8 | The purchaser ( If a licensed business from the trustee of a bankrupt certificate-holder must with reasonable dispatch get the bankrupt 's certificate transferred to him . |
| 9 | Should into salty sea no less |
| 10 | A thought er went , slipped by me er we must upon this council thank the committee staff that controlled the multitude outside , er they were n't trained for it but can the er thanks of this council for their endeavours in keeping the situation calm be recorded . |
| 11 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 12 | Each group , then , must sound complete if played without the others , and the part-writing must in each case be smooth and correct . |
| 13 | put it , ’ … the more outlandish the clause , the greater the notice which the other party , if he is to be bound , must in all fairness be given . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But I must in all honesty say says Howard very quickly , jutting his chin out and smilingly blinking his eyes , ‘ that I still think there are a number of things in the universe which really need seriously looking into . ’ |
| 15 | The designer must in this case provide the six displacement and rotation vectors to transform the model from its drawn space , into the reference for the component within the complete machine . |
| 16 | The files must in this case be named after the individual piece parts , ie PARTA to PARTE . |
| 17 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 18 | The Crown must in any event pay to the defendant his costs of the appeal to the Board . |
| 19 | From this meeting they sent back Curzon with a formal resolution , urging Asquith 's immediate resignation , and saying that he must in any event accept and publish theirs . |
| 20 | Any quotation must in any case be extensive : |
| 21 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 22 | The disturbing thought that motivates both theories is that , if the world is to be intelligible , it must be mind-like , in the sense that generality — the feature of thought , concepts and meanings — must in some way , run through the world itself . |
| 23 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 24 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 25 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |
| 26 | Their feminism must in some way be fitted to the facts of Christianity . |
| 27 | They must in some way make these their own — take them into their personal repertoire . |
| 28 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 29 | In this way , following Marx , they contend that if military expenditure and involvement in society and politics has increased , then it must in some way be functional for the survival of capitalism as an economic system . |
| 30 | In Hills v. Ellis , this was interpreted to mean that the act of the defendant must in some way be ‘ aimed at ’ the police , even if there need be no hostility towards them . |