Example sentences of "be [num ord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important judicial dignities in Edinburgh attracted a great deal of competitive interest , and men watched the health of the incumbents closely in order to be sure to be first to ask for the vacant place in the event of a death . |
| 2 | There were two within subject factors , judgment task and junction ( the ratings from the three different exemplars of each junction were first averaged for each subject ) |
| 3 | In this case all values from each experiment were first averaged for each stimulus and correlations between the measures were calculated across the 48 films . |
| 4 | These locus control regions ( LCR ) were first defined for the β-globin system ( 14,15 ) and their ability to orchestrate lineage specific expression of sequences linked in cis has made them key elements in the development of gene therapy technology . |
| 5 | Radiolabelled DNA fragments were first preincubated for 5 min at 37°C in the presence or absence of NCp7 or one of the mutants in buffer containing 30 mM Tris-Cl ( pH 7.5 ) , 60 mM NaCl and 0.2 mM MgCl 2 . |
| 6 | Those who failed to respond to vaccine ( concentration of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen <10 IU/l ; 14% of those vaccinated ) were first tested for antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen , a marker of past or current infection with hepatitis B. As can be seen from the table , most of those investigated ( 99% ) had negative results for antibodies to core antigen and were true non-responders . |
| 7 | They were first authorised for use in Britain during the Toxteth riots of 1981 . |
| 8 | Precision Studios were first registered for BS5750 in February 1991 . |
| 9 | Gary Mills and Tony Poole have protested their innocence ever since they were first arrested for the murder of Hensley Wiltshire four years ago . |
| 10 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 11 | Copper-plate engravings were first used for book illustration in England in 1540 , when Richard Jonas published a translation of a German work on childbirth , and the first copper-plate title-page came five years later , with Thomas Gemini 's Compendiosa totius anatomie delineato . |
| 12 | Self expandable steel braided endoprostheses were first used for the treatment of vascular and urological benign strictures , with good clinical results . |
| 13 | In most countries it is customary to test the mother 's blood for evidence of syphilis when she is first seen for antenatal care , and this one measure is probably responsible for the extreme rarity of cases of early congenital syphilis . |
| 14 | Legislative and presidential elections were last held in October 1989 [ see p. 36966 ] ; they are next scheduled for 1994 . |
| 15 | Ponty skipper Nigel Bezani was first to go for a high tackle in which he elbowed centre John Apsee , but the Bridgend man admitted : ‘ I was surprised he was sent off . ’ |
| 16 | For doubled CO 2 the model was first integrated for perpetual 15 December conditions in zonally symmetric form without chemistry . |
| 17 | He had his detractors , including myself , when he was first selected for Ireland . |
| 18 | As stage manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival , he was at Bob Dylan 's elbow after the singer was first barracked for using electric instruments . |
| 19 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 20 | The exception is Beckus , still the most sparkling of Arnold 's comedy pieces , which was first recorded for Decca with Eduard van Beinum conducting , and with the composer himself playing first trumpet , by the LPO in 1947 . |
| 21 | A fashion expert writes : ‘ The Norfolk jacket was first designed for the Duke of Norfolk . |
| 22 | The first recorded aquarium introduction was in 1914 but the fish was first described for science in 1831 by Cuvier and Valenciennes . |
| 23 | The British Army , Navy , and Air Force Ski Challenge Cup was first competed for in 1914 in Villars , Switzerland . |
| 24 | Metcalfe was first dropped for the game against Kent but returned at Basingstoke after two half centuries in a second team match and he was the top aggregate scorer against Hampshire . |
| 25 | Born in South Yarra on Aug 14 , 1909 , he shone as a colt , without creating a stream of huge scores , and was first chosen for Victoria in 1926–27 , when only 17 . |
| 26 | Tissue culture , an ancillary method with a particularly high profile , ‘ was first used for vaccine production in 1949 , a long time before the present demand for alternatives . |
| 27 | Single dose treatment was first used for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy . |
| 28 | He suggests that RNA was first used for purely structural purposes , as oil drillers use tannins or we use soap and detergents . |
| 29 | It was first used for a review of the Northern Tethys region — an area stretching from Romania in the west to the Pamirs and Tien Shien in China to the east . |
| 30 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |