Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 2 | Many clutched a commuters ' breakfast of buttered bun and polystyrene cup of coffee , weighing up the dilemma of being late for work against the lure of easy money . |
| 3 | Emec , who was regarded as a conservative , had spoken out publicly against religious fundamentalism and had accused Syria of being responsible for the rising wave of terrorism . |
| 4 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 5 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 6 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 7 | The Inland Revenue originally wanted the machinery ring to be responsible for tax deductions for such workers . |
| 8 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 9 | Nevertheless they still represented items of heavy capital expenditure , and still required a data processing department to be responsible for them . |
| 10 | But this is not an attempt to be controversial for the sake of it . |
| 11 | Any other such applicant as deemed by St Andrew 's College to be suitable for admission to the course . |
| 12 | In terms of the age distribution , the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits is 0.18 for men under 20 , decreases with age to a value of 0.06 for men over 55 ; NNS found the effect to be largest for the teenagers with a value of 0.65 . |
| 13 | Agreed to purchase one machine initially , JF to be responsible for booking it out to Garden Departments . |
| 14 | Tom Pratt 's carrier to be pre-adjusted for angles . |
| 15 | That is , they would consider an action to be right for reasons other than consequential . |
| 16 | Our results showed concentrations to be identical for transcripts of mitochondrial genes unaffected by mutation , but lower for transcripts of affected mitochondrial genes in the mutant . |
| 17 | The Russian side says the Ministry of Science looks toward the EUnet/Relcom network , the former Soviet Union Internet node , to provide communication links and appointed the current president of Relcom Corp , Alexie Soldatov , and the director of the Russian Institute for Developing Public Networks/RELARN project co-ordinator , Alexie Platonov to be responsible for this area . |
| 18 | ONE of the joys of being responsible for a column like this is that the search for news creates opportunities to become involved in developments which are normally outside the availability of most enthusiasts . |
| 19 | In some areas , of course , the changes may have been more apparent than real and the necessity of being eligible for election may not have changed the actual personnel who continued to dominate rural politics . |
| 20 | At the end of last year Sri Lanka failed by 16 runs to beat Australia in a Test in Colombo after being 127 for two . |
| 21 | It was established that Talb , while in Malta , had met Hafez Dalkammoni , a leading member of Ahmed Jabril 's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) , which was suspected by US intelligence of being responsible for the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 22 | At every stage of the arms race there was no intrinsic benefit in being tall for its own sake . |
| 23 | A WHO analysis published on Nov. 11 in Geneva showed heterosexual intercourse to be responsible for three quarters of all cases of HIV infection . |
| 24 | Though oil companies have previously used converted tankers for similar purposes , the £70 million Alba vessel is the first of its type to be purpose-built for holding on station by a novel technology developed by the Glasgow-based marine specialists YARD . |
| 25 | However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected . |
| 26 | Warrington scrum-half Kevin Ellis ( broken ribs ) , Carlisle hooker Barry Williams ( chipped bone in his back ) and powerful Widnes second row Paul Moriarty ( knee damage ) face a frantic battle to be fit for the match on November 27 . |
| 27 | For bills to be eligible for forfeiting it must carry the guarantee of an internationally known and sound bank in the importer 's country . |
| 28 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 29 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 30 | In Bangladesh , Oral Rehydration Therapy was in danger of falling into the trap of being inappropriate for the people that it was intended to help . |