Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 2 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 3 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 4 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 5 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 6 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 7 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 8 | There has been big demand for tickets , despite price increases , and the club anticipate a sell-out in the North and South stands and terraces . |
| 9 | Sports coach is new envoy for Russians |
| 10 | He says there will I hope be improved protection for side impacts . |
| 11 | All they get is sad sheep for fans … who just follow the crowd — try and be uncontroversial . |
| 12 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 13 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 14 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 15 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 16 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 17 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 18 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 19 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 20 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 21 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 22 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 24 | Exmoor offers unrivalled opportunities to unwind — its dramatic scenery , quiet village centres and small towns have been welcoming visitors for centuries . |
| 25 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 26 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
| 27 | there have been other reasons for delays er up until about a year ago . |
| 28 | The crisis has been created by the Government and it provides the context in which there have been tremendous implications for training . |
| 29 | Development by government departments does not require planning permission , but there have been special arrangements for consultations since 1950 . |
| 30 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |