Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 2 | Recent scholarship suggests that the tactic of anonymity may have been employed for the best of reasons . |
| 3 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 4 | He says that moral is low , with workers now waiting to see who have been chosen for the latest redundancies . |
| 5 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |
| 6 | He concluded : ‘ But in my judgment the powers to seize and retain are conferred for the better performances of public functions by public bodies and can not be used to make information available to private individuals for their private purposes . ’ |
| 7 | It asserts most forcefully its opinion that should consent be given for the proposed development then an unforgivable error will have been perpetrated with major consequences for the Welsh coast and countryside . |
| 8 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |