Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His note on the beast of Chapter Seventeen of Revelation , the beast which does n't exist and still has to appear and is destined for perdition , is ‘ generalhuman ’ — the word he coined for Notes from Underground and incidentally never used again in his fiction . |
| 2 | He never thought of patenting his invention or trying to make any money out of it , but others who saw it were not slow to realize its potential , and soon copies began to appear and were sold for £6 or £7 each . |
| 3 | He was barely eighteen , he was to go on a tour of the fabled cities of England ; he was to be thrown in with chorus girls , drink with vagabonds of the stage , have the money for floozies and low bars , time to read and time to talk and be praised for doing this stage work which was not work at all . |
| 4 | Packages in the existing topic areas ( practice management , project management , contract procedures , building law , and legal and insurance issues ) continued to sell and were used for both personal and practice CPD . |
| 5 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 6 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 7 | Candidates must have a high motivation to publish and be prepared for exciting teamwork . |
| 8 | Danby and the other great Gorge masters rarely come to auction or are found for sale in galleries . |
| 9 | The course is structured to allow students who have completed Part I of the course , ie. the first two years , to elect and be selected for one of the following options : |
| 10 | At up to £35 a kilo , they are now too expensive to eat and are bought for restocking rivers with edible eel in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 11 | Many investors have profits to take and are looking for a reason to sell . |