Example sentences of "for be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For management decision-making the relevant costs to be accounted for are future incremental costs . |
| 2 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 3 | The types we are aiming for are active and free-moving . ’ |
| 4 | These invaluable low-growing pink plants have a reputation for being tender , but as these are doing so well here in this cold part of the country , they must be among the hardier varieties . |
| 5 | It was the usual reason for the angry young hero 's spleen ; Jimmy Porter goads the hapless colonel 's daughter , Alison , as immobile and submissive as the very ironing board at which she uncomplainingly stands , for being middle class . |
| 6 | I 'm not quite sure what her motives for being nude were — has she said ? — but if that 's the way she wants us to think of her that 's fine |
| 7 | In this period few lairds could really afford the luxury of complete freedom of action in their politics , for the only means of avoiding ties of obligation , which were nonetheless real for being unspoken , was to refuse to accept any favour . |
| 8 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 9 | Clearly , the originators of the major schemes can not be criticized for being ignorant of principles which were not recognized when their schemes were initiated . |
| 10 | The philosophies of Rousseau and of David Hartley , whose work had become a powerful influence on Coleridge , convinced them both that ‘ Vice is not natural to Man ’ , and that given strong reasons for being virtuous , ‘ Man would approach very near perfection ’ . |
| 11 | An argument frequently advanced for being consistent is that it is fairer on other people , they know what to expect and ‘ where they stand ’ . |
| 12 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 13 | Hans Baensch for being involved in the publication of one of the best general reference works on coldwater/tropical fish and for his lifetime 's work with fish |
| 14 | It 's like should I resign for being involved in a sex scandal ? |
| 15 | Even at lesbian conferences such as Canterbury , Nottingham and Bristol , separatists were castigated for being smug extremists . |
| 16 | And the trouble is that the , the , the English landlord has a name for being greedy . |
| 17 | Never mind reverting to the back-foot no-ball law : bowlers , greedy for every millimetre , have plenty of ground upon which to plant the front foot , and have only themselves to blame for being no-balled . |
| 18 | ( ‘ The best thing for being sad ’ , Merlyn says in The Sword in the Stone , 1938 , ‘ is to learn something . ’ ) |
| 19 | ( And this very paper for being sexist enough to do it . ) |
| 20 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 21 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 22 | Max Weber criticised the Marxist view for being over- generalised . |
| 23 | This election campaign has been criticised for being negative . |
| 24 | He was criticised for being negative , so he resorted to inserting the word ‘ positive ’ at dreary intervals into his stock responses to questions . |
| 25 | Some too have criticized the Ten Commandments for being negative . |
| 26 | Scum 0 Leeds 0 ; Leeds get criticised from all quarters for being negative . |
| 27 | Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded . |
| 28 | One o w one point off for being cocky ! |
| 29 | You are praised for being selfless , a good sport . |
| 30 | ‘ When instinct tells me a dog would be better off with me than people who might just leave it on the motorway , I have to bite my tongue , but I 'm noted for being blunt . |