Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 3 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 4 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 6 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 7 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 8 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 9 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 10 | Pine-scented products may do this and so are best avoided for this reason . |
| 11 | But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life . |
| 12 | Living persons are not fitted for such transmission , and even the dead must be guaranteed by their " solid achievement " ( political , literary , military , or other ) . |
| 13 | In theory , you can convert a road shoe to cross-country shoe or vice versa , but as midsoles and uppers are not designed for such changes , it would not always to wise to try to . |
| 14 | Consequently , Re concentration data are not reported for these analyses , but the Os data are reported to illustrate the level of reproducibility of these measurements . |
| 15 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 16 | Because they are not paid for this service , there may be a socially less-than-optimal amount of bee-keeping . |
| 17 | Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament . |
| 18 | Honestly , Rachel , you 've only got to see the two of you together — you 're just made for each other . ’ |
| 19 | Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're fully booked for this evening , sir . |
| 21 | Final thoughts : great pity that Neil and Glenys wo n't be in Number Ten — never have a couple been more made for that job . |
| 22 | Two tables have been specially built for this purpose , allowing a large area of carpet to be viewed under daylight bulbs . |
| 23 | Examination pieces have been specially written for each grade in a variety of styles and will be performed at the exam by the student using backing tapes . |
| 24 | Each of these situations exists in sign language learning , although the total immersion options are usually reserved for those people with deaf relatives . |
| 25 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 26 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 27 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 28 | In archaeology , I understand , it can now be said that computers are automatically considered for any project , however small . |
| 29 | Prometheus and Frankenstein are both punished for these deeds but Prometheus does n't die . |
| 30 | THE Brain Club and this space are clearly destined for each other . |