Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am often asked for this but it is difficult to obtain . |
| 2 | ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear … |
| 3 | You know I 'm not closed for any area because erm er I adapt I 've adapted to change you know . |
| 4 | Oh thank you sir , I 'm much obliged for that . |
| 5 | ‘ And to think I was eventually sold for half-a-million ! ’ |
| 6 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 7 | I was n't asked for any more information . |
| 8 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 9 | I think I was mentally prepared for gay liberation in 1970 when it came along and when I did encounter it it swept me along quite easily . |
| 10 | Consumer goods are those ‘ which are ordinarily intended for private use or consumption ’ but the following are excluded : growing crops , things comprised in land by being attached to it , water , food , feeding stuff or fertiliser , gas supplied by persons authorised under the Gas Act 1986 , aircraft ( other than hang-gliders ) motor vehicles , controlled drugs , licensed medicinal products and tobacco . |
| 11 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , which has 80 seats , 24 of which are nominally reserved for Turkish Cypriots but are not filled . |
| 12 | We accept liability for our driver 's fidelity under clearly set out conditions which are easily amended for special circumstances ( plus relevant insurances ) . |
| 13 | All assets built up during the marriage should be regarded as jointly owned and therefore jointly divided on divorce , apart from those which are clearly intended for one party or the other through a specific gift or bequest . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the 1982 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the members ( approximately 3,000 ) of which are indirectly elected for five years . |
| 15 | There are no genuine transnational political parties , though there appears to be a growing interest in international associations of parties , which are sometimes mistaken for transnational parties . |
| 16 | The Quetzal swims in the middle layers of the water , and feeds on vegetable matter and insects , sometimes picking at rocks — if you look closely you will see the anterior teeth , clearly visible , which are ideally suited for such browsing . |
| 17 | Our refrigeration service engineers check all equipment regularly and , when disposing of old equipment are instructed to collect the CFC gas carefully in cylinders which are then sealed for safe disposal . |
| 18 | Estimates were cautiously low and there were good results for interesting , good quality works , many of which were well suited for private collectors . |
| 19 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 20 | Financial control was centralized under one accounting officer , the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence , with subordinate Deputy Under-Secretaries to oversee the individual Service votes , which were still retained for administrative convenience , but could be adjusted to conform to Defence , as opposed to single Service , priorities . |
| 21 | With her claws , which were hardly designed for delicate manipulations , she displayed her sash , tapped the various items of equipment clipped inside the fabric . |
| 22 | Thus , conversation , which is normally marked for secondary stress on and primary stress on is represented as in stressed , phonemic form.With this type of representation , in which each vowel phoneme ( except schwa ) can be marked for stress , an additional 19 units are introduced into the phoneme inventory . |
| 23 | The team is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against a combination order which is normally awarded for serious offences like burglary . |
| 24 | any sum paid by way of loan or repayment of loan ; and 2. any sum paid otherwise than as income , being a sum which is not paid for full consideration in money or money 's worth . |
| 25 | The the total provision for Harrogate District is ninety hectares of which thirty hectares is allocated to Greater York and we support that allocation because it properly reflects the provision of a site which is already committed for industrial development . |
| 26 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives which is popularly elected for five years and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister ( currently Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson ) and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 27 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 28 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 29 | Due to demographic changes , such as falling population , land can be released for residential development which was previously designated for other uses , such as schools and recreation grounds . |
| 30 | And this was what we proposed to do , based on the Dutch ship ‘ Plancius ’ , a sturdy forty metre long ex-pilot-boat which was well equipped for Arctic exploration with up to twenty-four passengers . |