Example sentences of "to be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 2 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 3 | Slote concedes that in determining how much of a stock should be retained , separate percentages may have to be fixed for different sections of the stock , such as fiction and non-fiction . |
| 4 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 5 | If you 're using the region 's motorways tonight , you 're advised to be prepared for long delays as the Bank holiday traffic builds up . |
| 6 | Let's just say that the serious lack of accountability in some schemes leaves them wide open to be abused for private and illegal gain . |
| 7 | Determine the grades to be applied for revised posts that would assume responsibility for all financial and cost-control matters , for personnel , and for enhanced administrative support . |
| 8 | On Dec. 19 EC research ministers unanimously agreed on the technical standards to be applied for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting within the EC . |
| 9 | A hard line was to be maintained for violent and sexual offences with provisions for longer sentences , and Crown Courts were to be given the powers to impose heavier sentences than the individual offence justified , to persistent offenders deemed to be a public risk . |
| 10 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
| 11 | Workstation back-ups by portable tape drive will be possible from late 1992 , and this should eliminate the need for large numbers of floppies to be kept for hard-disk back-ups . |
| 12 | Later it transpired that the INAO ( Institut National des Appellations d'Origine des vins et eaux -de-vie ) would accept this 10% as a stock régulateur , a reserve without appellation to be kept for possible classification should any future shortfall require it . |
| 13 | If there is anything in the distinction I believe that the term Cabinet Committee ought to be kept for Ministerial committees and perhaps for committees of officials directly subordinate to a Ministerial committee ; but I am far from certain that the distinction is worth making . |
| 14 | It was put on deposit immediately , to be kept for post-war work on the course . |
| 15 | Applications must be processed Assuming that the company requires a range of different skills , the applications must be divided into groups according to their suitability for the different posts Some applicants may appear in more than one group , in which case some account will need to be taken of their preferences Managers involved in the selection process must choose those to be invited for initial interview . |
| 16 | But he told Mr Brown : ‘ You are saying that in some way income-related benefits have to be adjusted for particular price rises that occur . |
| 17 | Such models not only allow various emission control programmes to be examined for existing pollution sources , but also can assess the likely impact of new pollution sources . |
| 18 | As the following papers emphasize , the electronic record has now to be considered as an informational object to be archived for future research use as well as a working tool . |
| 19 | It is a chance not to be missed for Italian politics to make a new start . |
| 20 | I have followed it through closely because it shows the kind of diplomacy which , though no comparable evidence survives , has to be assumed for subsequent relations between Charles and his brothers ( and later his nephews ) throughout his reign . |
| 21 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 22 | ‘ the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long … a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes , should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention … recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 23 | Eccleshall and Honderich , however , will have none of this , and they lay to rest , it is to be hoped for good , the idea of Conservatism as a ‘ non-ideology ’ . |
| 24 | £5.3m centre to be built for genetic researchers |
| 25 | While she does have the merit , in contrast to the majority of researchers , of making the distinction between an inner state and an outward act , her definitions do not emerge as analytic categories to be employed for comparative purposes — mainly because they do not avoid the problem of reification , raised below . |
| 26 | children were not allowed to be employed for different lengths of times and social change |
| 27 | as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness . |
| 28 | It also takes the pressure off the local forest or other local natural resources which do not have to be destroyed for short-term gains . |
| 29 | An alternative to the award of an injunction for protecting the interests of applicants pending trial is to allow claims to be made for monetary compensation for loss inflicted by governmental action . |
| 30 | There is a perfectly respectable case to be made for Irish republicanism , and one which , as it happens , has some penetrating things to say about democracy as it has operated in Northern Ireland . |