Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to apologize for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 2 | The man I have been foolish enough to fall for is incapable of trusting me . ’ |
| 3 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 4 | We black Catholics must speak out in our schools for equality for our children , so that they can become the clergy and laity for the future without having to apologise for being black . |
| 5 | I was going to apologise for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 6 | The Carlow men , ahead two goals and three points to five points within sight of half-time , had to settle for being level at the break after Mick McCarthy 's well struck goal . |
| 7 | The doctors are being held to account for being efficient . |
| 8 | Never mind reverting to the back-foot no-ball law : bowlers , greedy for every millimetre , have plenty of ground upon which to plant the front foot , and have only themselves to blame for being no-balled . |
| 9 | Girls with anorexia or bulimia often feel to blame for their original ‘ weight problem ’ , then to blame for becoming too obsessed with it , and then further to blame for being unable to ‘ pull themselves together ’ . |