Example sentences of "to be [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 32 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 33 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
| 34 | This wonderfully rich and moist fruit cake may be a little strong for many young children 's tastes , but it is a lovely alternative for an older child , for a special occasion such as Christmas , or when the cake needs to be kept for some time . |
| 35 | It is particularly important for covering fruit cakes and cakes with an uneven surface , as it provides a smooth area for the icing and prevents discoloration of the icing by the cake if it is going to be kept for some time . |
| 36 | which I suppose it might be difficult to see what had to be arranged for that with you there 's a regularity , but you know the Trone is obviously a |
| 37 | It needs to be adjusted for any unpresented cheques or unrecorded deposits . |
| 38 | It was suggested earlier that one of the goals to be decided for any project was the intended readership of the final product ; that is , its audience . |
| 39 | Dates had to be obtained for many of the sites before the historical sequence would become clearer . |
| 40 | The friend himself does not intend his advice to be accepted for that reason , and is likely to be doubly hurt if he finds out that his advice was judged mistaken on its merits but was followed in order not to hurt him . |
| 41 | If funds are to be raised for more space , then the gallery must decide what that space would be for . |
| 42 | But what they all wanted was to be cared for some of the time and often their tears were statements about that need . |
| 43 | Merton admits his first own series was rushed and that more material needed to be written for each show . |
| 44 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 45 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 46 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 47 | That is , every word in the million-word corpus was assigned a tag indicating its grammatical category , and complex computer programs had to be written for this purpose . |
| 48 | Separate baptisteries continued to be built for many years and separate , free-standing campaniles were the general rule ; these features acted as watch towers and were symbols of local importance . |
| 49 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 50 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 51 | This form is to be completed for any ad hoc requests which can not be requested specifically by forms NEWOED1–NEWOED6 . |
| 52 | Holes need to be made for all the connections : ballvalve , cold water feeds and overflow pipe . |
| 53 | Also the subject of discussion and refinement during the first term are the number of offers to be made for each field to reach the target ( the offer ratio ) and the A level grades normally required for entry . |
| 54 | The evidence nationally regarding ‘ new long-stay ’ patients was equivocal , with the need for residential provision to be made for such patients being strongly contended outside Worcester . |
| 55 | And that it would be imprudent in the extreme for allowance not to be made for that feature . |
| 56 | Needless to say there is a case to be made for both sides in the discussion of small team versus large , and paid versus voluntary . |
| 57 | In such instances allowance has to be made for these features when planning the design , so much so that at Woodchester Orpheus may , for this reason , have been displaced from his usual , central position ( pI . |
| 58 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 59 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 60 | There is a case to be made for those starving and living in cardboard boxes just around the corner — |