Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Index figures are calculated for each artist in each succeeding year . |
| 2 | Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area . |
| 4 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 5 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 6 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 7 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 8 | Essex , after being within one rubber off going down still further , are destined for another season in Group 2 , but Lancashire , dropping only five rubbers , have already started their climb back by winning Group 3a . |
| 9 | The Wildcats are looking for early success in the play-off campaign when they play host to Bracknell tomorrow and travel to Basingstoke on Sunday . |
| 10 | Emphasising that the aid weapon helped to encourage liberalisation in Kenya , Britain and America are pushing for tough action in Paris to mellow Malawi 's life president , Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda . |
| 11 | we 're asking for public help in telling us where the travellers are gathering , especially on common or open landThe familiar police tactic is to try and keep the travellers in small groups by continually moving them away from the others . |
| 12 | 16,000ft up in the Bolivian Andes the miners of the Cerro Rico chew coca leaves , they 're preparing for another day in the tin mines . |
| 13 | Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes . |
| 14 | The deal had now been put on ice , though material had been exported for experimental use in the Argonne and Batelle reactors in the US , said Priddle . |
| 15 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 16 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 17 | The brothers , who fought out the finish of the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham 's Sunday fixture , are heading for another showdown in the Bula Hurdle over the same course and distance . |
| 18 | Some of the group are aiming for further education in business administration , or in other areas such as leisure and tourism . |
| 19 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 20 | But no motive for the killing has yet been established , so Richard 's relatives are asking for public help in catching his murderer . |
| 21 | The foundations have been laid for sustainable growth in both output and employment . |
| 22 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 23 | ( A similar way of finding the best power for transformation will be explained for median polishing in chapter 15 . ) |
| 24 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 25 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 26 | Other fascists interpreted it as a locomotive of history : an opportunity to create a new society where the major political consequence of the war , the greater direction and control of economic activity by the government , could be harnessed for social reform in peacetime . |
| 27 | The electoral law approved in October [ see pp. 37826-27 ] exceptionally allowed separate 5 per cent hurdles to be applied for this election in the two parts of the country . |
| 28 | Thus one specific entry can be made for each subject in the index . |
| 29 | Is the owner to be compensated for this loss in value ? |
| 30 | Loveridge then admitted handling stolen property and he 'll be sentenced for that offence in the next few weeks . |