Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [pers pn] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main focus of this chapter is whether these policies are sufficient , or whether it is necessary for the state to have direct control of certain industries through public ownership . |
| 2 | Queen , or whether it was permissible for a court to sentence on the basis of the offender 's previous record , for which , as Ashworth ( 1990 ) has pointed out , there is also Court of Appeal authority . |
| 3 | By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution . |
| 4 | Straight-sided models offer greater ‘ headroom ’ and so they are ideal for tall , space-hungry crops such as tomatoes and cucumbers . |
| 5 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 6 | And if it were possible for you to decide that one of these options , one to eight , were to suit your regular and usual purposes at these meetings for general discussion then that obviously would be both a saving in erm time and labour and is one of the reasons why one installs computerized equipment so that you do n't er then have to do it all manually as well . |
| 7 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 8 | And if you are stuck for supplies or a place to work then a listing of major suppliers , studios and darkrooms will accommodate you . |
| 9 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 10 | And because I 'm responsible for you . |
| 11 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 12 | It is estimated that there are 7,000 inmates in Britain 's prisons requiring specific help for mental disorder , and while it is possible for prisoners to receive psychiatric treatment from visiting consultants while in prison , facilities on the whole are poor and the environment is far from conducive to improving a person 's mental state . |
| 13 | And while it 's impossible for an everyday motor cyclist to imagine what 's involved in taming a 500 , the New Age stars talk of their craft so matter-of-factly . |
| 14 | And while she was pleased for Stella to be out of hospital and in more comfortable surroundings , she knew it heralded the beginning of the end of her own sojourn at Wilder 's Wilderness . |
| 15 | Since Douglas does not deal with the questions of what is valuable for women , and whether it is valuable for all women , it is likely that the usual socially-biased criteria or psychological worth will be read into the vacuum of her definition . |
| 16 | If Marguerite noticed Jenna 's crimson cheeks she chose to ignore it , but Claudine missed nothing and when they were alone for a moment she turned on Jenna with flashing dark eyes . |
| 17 | Low-rise houses , on the contrary , can be improved and extended by their occupants as and when it is possible for them to do so . |
| 18 | The housekeeper then has the room serviced and when it is ready for letting , presses the switch in the bedroom which will then show a green light on all boards , indicating that the room is now ready to be let . |
| 19 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 20 | Canadian labour education is by no means a model of good practice , but if it is possible for unions with far weaker traditions of political affiliation and shopfloor militancy than in Britain to stray beyond the circumscribed perimeters of the workplace in their training , then it is harder still to accept the myopic parochialism of much current British practice . |
| 21 | I can not at present be more specific about when I shall be able to deliver the items to you , but if it is important for you to have a specific time , could I ask you , please , to get in touch in a day or so . |
| 22 | A MUCH-PRAISED AMERICAN playwright , John Guare has never received his due in this country — not , I think , because his comedies do n't appeal to the English sense of humour but because it 's difficult for actors here to get across their vision of insane optimism and everyday insanity . |
| 23 | But while I was house-sitting for Nassim , Fenella had been cat-sitting for me . |
| 24 | But whether it 's therapeutic for the reader is not for me to say . |