Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 2 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 3 | It 's their genes that are struggling for reproductive success . |
| 4 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 5 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ By its nature the carnival is very noisy , but we will listen to any representations that are made for future events . ’ |
| 6 | The rearing of vast numbers of animals that will never live out their natural span , and that are killed for human purposes , will only seem immoral if ( yet again ) there is a confused identification with similar programmes were they to involve human beings . |
| 7 | However , techniques that are developed for theoretical purposes or for other applications may have relevance to the present project , and this is indicated where appropriate . |
| 8 | The few pieces that are known for certain to be by Lombardo — in a Doge 's tomb in Venice and two busts in Vienna — show no sign of the naturalist force that the tomb artist gave to Guidarello 's face . |
| 9 | This international course will emphasise organisation of communication and non-formal education programmes that are designed for various sectors of society ranging from policy-makers to villagers . |
| 10 | because they are not , not only us but all A S U s that are working for Regional Railways . |
| 11 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend on ensuring that Britain is at the forefront of those countries in Europe that are pressing for improved animal welfare . |
| 12 | Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes . |
| 13 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 14 | Although the small sample size and bias in selection limits the predictive power of some of these measures , it demonstrates that there are real differences that distinguish companies that are suited for high temporary debt from those that are not . |
| 15 | PDE1 and PDE2 represent other conserved regions that are required for transcriptional activation by CREB in various assays ( 4 , 5 ) . |
| 16 | Those debt and equity securities that are held for current resale would be classified as trading securities and included in the financial statements at fair value with unrealised gains and losses included in earnings . |
| 17 | In the past , developing countries have fallen into ridiculous debt trying to pay back loans that were made for impractical , ludicrously expensive projects . |
| 18 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 19 | Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations . |
| 20 | Rigorous stretching exercises and taekwondo go hand in hand , for without pushing the muscles beyond their normal use , the sinews and tendons will not gain the elasticity that is required for dynamic kicking techniques . |
| 21 | PKA represents a single protein kinase A phosphoacceptor site that is required for transcriptional activation ( 7 ) . |
| 22 | This again is relevant to school tasks since it is near vision that is used for close work such as reading and writing . |
| 23 | This is in clear contrast to the divergence model in Indo-European studies , and as a result of this contrast , the shape that emerges from historical language description ( from ancient times to the present day ) is not so much a pyramidal shape ( with gradual convergence at the top ) as a funnel shape ( the kind that is used for pouring liquids ) , as in figure 3.1 . |
| 24 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 25 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 26 | The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables . |
| 27 | A dozen years ago , Zilog Corp with the Z80 , Micropro International Corp with WordStar , Digital Research Inc with CP/M , Software Arts Inc with VisiCalc , Wang Laboratories Inc with its office systems , ruled the low end of the industry — the end that was poised for explosive growth over the next decade : where are they now ? |
| 28 | One of the areas that was targeted for local government investment lies on the north side of the Allegheny river , directly across from the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ which forms the heart of Pittsburgh 's downtown . |
| 29 | One distinctive theme of the Newcastle RRL work is the problem of integrating zonal datasets--in other words , bringing together information that was published for different sets of areas ( over 50 different sets of areas are used for reporting statistics about Britain 's localities ) . |
| 30 | What all the " finishing " processes had in common , apart from a degree of exertion greater than was needed for hand-setting but not necessarily greater than could be expected from a normal young woman , was that these were tasks an apprentice learned only towards the end of his time . |