Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since action implies narrative , such figures are generally designed primarily for a profile view ( cf. above , p. 14 ) , while the ‘ repose-statue ’ ( the Kritian boy , Euenor 's Athena and their successors ) is meant to be seen from the front , like kouros and kore . |
| 2 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 3 | Have you decided you 're not cut out for a permanent relationship ? |
| 4 | ‘ She had been totally geared up for a reconciliation , ’ says Columb Farrelly , then manager of Sinead 's band and the man who persuaded the troubled teenager to seek out her mother . |
| 5 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 6 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 7 | The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment . |
| 8 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 9 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 10 | Boro boss Lawrence , meanwhile , is not lined up for a summer move to Spurs despite rumours sweeping the NorthEast . |
| 11 | It is a sick government that is proud of the fact that it 's not signed up for a Social Chapter . |
| 12 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 13 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 14 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 15 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 16 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 18 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 19 | In Melbourne on the afternoon of 8 February , 1983 , the sky was completely blacked out for a while . |
| 20 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |