Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun prp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
2 | Clive Calver notes four things in its favour : ‘ One — it sets goals and avoids the waffle of ‘ we are seeking God for spiritual growth ’ . |
3 | The couple have legal aid and are suing Lloyds for half a million pounds . |
4 | British footie fans were combing Europe for new styles a decade ago , says Peter Hooton ( above ) , who documented the rise of the humble sports shoe via his fanzine , The End |
5 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
6 | The second step is to obtain C. For this we select the underlined element in B an evaluate in succession unc and then unc Note that the zero elements in B have become nonzero in C ; however , unc is now 2.19132 ; compare unc above . |
7 | USL is suing BSDI for unfair competition and for falsely advertising that its BSD/386 operating system , a derivative of the Network Release 2 work done by the University of California , Berkeley , is AT&T-free and needs no licence from USL . |
8 | John Cummings , who is defending Easington for Labour , is no stranger to the effects of crime . |
9 | To test the water , John McElroy , an American official , is visiting Europe for two weeks from 14 April . |
10 | Additionally Bruno Durieux ( Minister-Delegate for Health under former Prime Minister Edith Cresson until April 1992 ) was appointed Minister-Delegate for Foreign Trade . |
11 | Mamadou Coulibaly , a former Army Chief of Staff , was appointed Minister-Delegate for National Defence on Sept. 12 , 1989 , replacing Brig. -Gen . |
12 | The bulk of this short book consists of transcriptions of letters sent by Giardini to Leone while the latter was scouring Italy for suitable singers . |
13 | But Sir John French , already disheartened by the news that the French Government was leaving Paris for new headquarters at Bordeaux , was thinking of retreat to the Channel ports . |
14 | And you know , for you and I , so often , imagine , think back to the time when you did not know Jesus Christ how easy it was to blame God for this and for that , if there 's a God of love in heaven why does n't he do something about it ? |
15 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |