Example sentences of "be [verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 2 | Regulations are given for both normal ( seminal and menstrual ) and abnormal , possibly malignant , discharges . |
| 3 | More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor . |
| 4 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 5 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 6 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 7 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 8 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 9 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 10 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 11 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 13 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |
| 14 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 15 | Of the six colleges only two are accredited for both primary and secondary training at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ; primary provision predominates and , because of cuts imposed by the former DES in the past , even their joint secondary provision does not meet the full range of subjects required by the standard secondary school . |
| 16 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 17 | Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park , California has unveiled technical specifications for its next generation multithreaded databases , OnLine 6.0 and OnLine 7.0 , which have been optimised for massively parallel processing systems . |
| 18 | Informix Software Inc has unveiled technical specifications for its next generation multithreaded and databases , OnLine 6.0 and OnLine 7.0 , which have been optimised for massively parallel processing systems . |
| 19 | Departmental Visiting Days are divided into two groups which are intended for rather different purposes : |
| 20 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 21 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 22 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 23 | Furthermore , some of these sorts of approaches have been modified for more general use with those who are not already suffering a psychiatric disorder . |
| 24 | The simpler forms are designed for less prestigious or valuable property . |
| 25 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 26 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 27 | Similar findings have been reported for both mid and east Devon where both service and professional activities have increased considerably ( Glyn-Jones , 1979 ; 1982 ) . |
| 28 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 29 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 30 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |