Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 2 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 3 | In the past , the TA has been responsible for massive field hospitals ; the current approach is to make such hospitals much smaller and more flexible , and to increase their number . |
| 4 | ‘ Sackholders ’ which look like dustbins but lack proper handles which can be grasped are INADEQUATE for loose refuse and MUST NOT be used except to hold tied plastic sacks . |
| 5 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 6 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 7 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 8 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 9 | Prior to 12th April , both women would have been eligible for free advice . |
| 10 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 11 | A good quality tape-measure that will not stretch is necessary for general sewing use . |
| 12 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 13 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 14 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 16 | The man Bleasdale picked to head up its new Charter Train Unit was David Ward , who since 1976 had been responsible for co-ordinating main-line steam operations in conjunction with the Steam Locomotive Owners Association ( SLOA ) . |
| 17 | Mr Peter Lucas , a director of Bond Corporation , named the man as Mr David Michael , who , he said , had been responsible for top-level corporation security until his dismissal last October . |
| 18 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 19 | The authorities scored a significant success in the ongoing struggle against the underground movement within the armed forces — which had been responsible for numerous coup attempts against the government of President Corazon Aquino — with the arrest in Manila on Feb. 6 of Lt.-Col. Victor Batac and Maj. Abraham Purugganan . |
| 20 | The same cubes , padded and covered are fine for occasional seating . |
| 21 | Each of the bedrooms has been designed with its own balcony or terrace equipped with garden chairs , and the walls have been sound-proofed for added privacy . |
| 22 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |