Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 2 | She is saving for another trip , probably in an informal group of friends . |
| 3 | Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results . |
| 4 | She is milked for 10 months of the year and pregnant for nine months . |
| 5 | Although it is intended for all ages and abilities , in practice it is limited to Levels 1 , 2 and 3 . |
| 6 | It is intended for all levels of user , however it is assumed that the reader is familiar with LIFESPAN and its operation . |
| 7 | It is intended for all levels of user , however it is assumed that the reader is familiar with LIFESPAN and its operation . |
| 8 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |
| 9 | Led by historian and broadcaster Dr Ian Grimble and accompanied by a member of Historic Scotland staff , it is based for six nights in picturesque Svaneke at the 17th-century Siemsens Gaard Hotel overlooking the harbour . |
| 10 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 11 | It is lit for 13 hours a day , and cleaned every two weeks . |
| 12 | It is scheduled for full implementation during 1983 . |
| 13 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 14 | ‘ It is catering for well-heeled youth , ’ he maintains , ‘ and is well run without too much interference . ’ |
| 15 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 16 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 17 | It is degrading for both parties , and makes any serious or intimate conversation impossible . |
| 18 | A Week in Politics has been put out by Channel 4 for a number of years , but it was adapted to be the channel 's weekly round-up programme on Parliament ; it is broadcast for one hour on Sundays at 10 am . |
| 19 | Too often it is exported for foreign exchange while poor people without the money to buy it or the land to grow it go hungry : South Asia still contains the majority of the world 's ‘ absolute poor ’ . |
| 20 | The double-flowered form is the one generally cultivated because it is preferred for medical use , and is grown from division of runners , taken and planted in early spring ; seedlings produce a large number of single-flowered forms . |
| 21 | It is recommended for on-the-spot checking for animals before they enter the herd and those with repeatedly high cell counts . |
| 22 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 23 | It is used for administrative purposes ( bed usage , duration of stay , operations , etc. ) and studies of illness treated in hospital . |
| 24 | The result is both neat and hard-wearing — it is used for most knitwear commercially after all . |
| 25 | In reality , the term should only be applied to items made under royal commission , but in practice it is used for any rug from these weaving centres produced in the Pahlavi style ( pls 36 , 37 ) . |
| 26 | No other business jet has so many differing roles : in addition to corporate use , it is used for military liaison and communication flights , casualty evacuation , photographic survey , aeronautical and meteorological research , navaid calibration , airline crew training , Electronic Counter Measure ( ECM mission , weapon system trainer ( Mirage 111E ) , mini freight carrier and in the near future the Garrett turbofan-engine 20G will be operated by the United States Coast Guard . |
| 27 | Admittedly , where it is used for mass vaccination its reported efficacy has varied widely , as detailed by Citron . |
| 28 | Within the underground complex many mysterious rites take place which it is forbidden for any male to witness . |
| 29 | It is designed for one party to put forward a proposition which the other party denies or opposes . |
| 30 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |