Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular . |
| 2 | The Library 's historical archive is arranged in a reasonable historical order , and is contained in acid-free boxes , but it is at the moment unindexed , and the store room which contains it is totally unsuitable for archive consultation . |
| 3 | He says I 'm very concerned for local people who will have a further period of uncertainty . |
| 4 | He says she 's too young for the job . |
| 5 | Says she 's too young for the day centre . ’ |
| 6 | The thing is , he says he knows a lot about the world , he knows what men are like , he says he 's just worried for me . |
| 7 | But the MP for the area where the device was planted says he 's still concerned for the safety of passengers |
| 8 | McNealy says he is perfectly willing for NT to go on the Sparc RISC if Microsoft wants to port it . |
| 9 | Mum says it 's too rude for a 15-year-old . |
| 10 | Mr Major clearly thinks she is now ready for high office . |
| 11 | He realises it is probably impossible for the people he calls ‘ actives ’ and ‘ contemplatives ’ to understand one another . |
| 12 | But Mary feels it is too small for the lower wind speeds , so she may introduce an overlapping furler for the 10 to 18 knot band . |
| 13 | Here the incoherence has been identified as probably resolvable by a metaphoric reading , but the respondent obviously feels it is too invisible for her to be able , as yet , to resolve it successfully . |
| 14 | Royston Marley 's decision to work a permanent nightshift means he is now unavailable for anything but a three o'clock kick-off . |
| 15 | ‘ Bonaparte 's got no stomach for the fight : knows we 're too strong for him , and has cleared off under cover of the mist . ’ |
| 16 | Piper , the Cardiff-based fighter with a MENSA rating of 153 who has lost only once in 18 fights , simply believes he is too clever for Benn . |
| 17 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |