Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 2 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 3 | That might seem to be precisely the sort of querulous argument which the Left has familiarly been scorned for posing . |
| 4 | Morgenthau has long been criticized for ignoring or underplaying economic factors . |
| 5 | In industrialised countries , such rudimentary amenities as piped water and sanitation have long been taken for granted and there has been a virtual elimination of major infectious diseases over the past century . |
| 6 | Advances in automation , the development of word-processors and the many other applications of information technology have all been blamed for rising unemployment . |
| 7 | Because of the last row knitted before casting off has to be knitted at a looser tension , the linker can only be used for casting off all the stitches . |
| 8 | The woodwind can only be used for doubling notes which are already present in the brass . |
| 9 | Instead the contributions can only be used for boosting the actual pension itself . |
| 10 | The surface of the tablet can be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting the main functions . |
| 11 | The surface of the tablet can also be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting major functions or entering text . |
| 12 | The click paradigm can , of course , only be used for investigating the perception of spoken language . |
| 13 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 14 | Your review of two books on crime ( April 3rd ) makes the brazen statement that Italy ‘ can perhaps be forgiven for producing so many American gangsters . ’ |
| 15 | The defendants alone were sued for inducing/procuring the employees to breach their contracts of employment . |
| 16 | Spring water only is used for drinking and cooking food . |
| 17 | Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process . |
| 18 | With all due respect to my fellow countrymen , German prisoners of war have not been noted for escaping from England , not since the First World War . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 20 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |
| 21 | She knows from home that many trains do not run because thousands of peasants have not been paid for hauling wood to the engine fuel-dumps for the whole of 1920–1 , and so have refused to carry on . |
| 22 | Selling goods that have not been paid for appears to need redress . |
| 23 | On the other hand , only 25 per cent of the Kosovo electorate turned out to vote , most of these being Serbs , following calls by ethnic Albanians for a total boycott , and Tanjug reported that in Kosovo some 400 polling stations had not been opened for voting by the local authorities . |
| 24 | Bill Craig had already been sacked for criticizing O'Neill 's televised plea to the province . |
| 25 | Two players had allegedly already been banished for fighting . |
| 26 | A man who 's already been to jail for killing a policeman is going back to prison tonight after a judge increased his sentence . |
| 27 | The JUMNA ( Junction Minimisation of Nucleic Acids ) program , described in detail in earlier publications ( 15–19 ) , has already been employed for studying base sequence effects within the various allomorphs of DNA and RNA , the conformation and stability of triple helices , the mechanism of base pair opening and the specificity of DNA-drug interactions . |
| 28 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 29 | A method had already been developed for salvaging institutions and legacies which were defective : the principle plus nuncupatum minus scriptum was applied . |
| 30 | If by any chance the cassette has already been used for recording on another machine ( for example , on a VHS mains VCR ) , remember to check that the cassette 's safety-tab is still in place , otherwise , you may be baffled by your camcorder 's refusal to do any recording ! |