Example sentences of "that they be [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they have volunteers to help keep the lavatories open and stress that they are essential for the town which is a terminus for buses and trains in East Cleveland throughout the year . |
| 2 | We choose our customers carefully : only those who can underwrite the loan , give pledges that they are good for the money they have borrowed . |
| 3 | There 's certainly a feeling that such labours are ‘ easy ’ , and studies have shown that they are better for the baby — rapid deliveries mean less chance of the baby becoming distressed and therefore involve fewer forceps deliveries and Caesarean sections . |
| 4 | The Careers Services will monitor the employers ' job offers to ensure that they are suitable for the Compact . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's something in that , ’ Hari agreed , ‘ but , for the moment , I have to concentrate on the ladies ’ shoes so that they are ready for the people from the theatre to take with them when they move on to Somerset . ’ |
| 6 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 7 | Note that there is no implication that this ‘ quality check ’ found the modules to be of particularly high quality : merely that they were fit for the purpose intended for the baseline . |
| 8 | The bottom line argument against heritage languages was always that they were bad for the children . |
| 9 | He brought an action against the chairman and secretary of the club , as officers of the club , claiming that they were liable for the injuries he had sustained by reason of the condition of the club 's premises . |
| 10 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 11 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 12 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |
| 13 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |
| 14 | — helping to get clients to bed , and seeing that they were safe for the night . |