Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 2 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 3 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 4 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 5 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 6 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 7 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 8 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 9 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 10 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 11 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 12 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 13 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 14 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 15 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 16 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 17 | The appendix on useful verbs should come in handy for those not up on adventure jargon , but be careful with the address section — a lot of them are now out of date so be prepared for some lack of response in some cases . |
| 18 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 19 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 20 | Children are encouraged to play freely and imaginatively , but at a later stage may be helped to give goods a price-marking of counters , e.g. a packet marked with would only be exchanged for four counters . |
| 21 | Psychotropic drugs should only be prescribed for good reasons . |
| 22 | This would , or course , only be justified for serious disease , but if more benign targetting techniques could be devised , it might be possible to use the liver as a target tissue for any interaction with serum metabolites , such as cholesterol . |
| 23 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 24 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 25 | So , while herbs undoubtedly have marvellous potential for curing illness , home cures should only be undertaken for minor ailments . |
| 26 | These can , however , only be paid for six years in arrears , so this concession may not help if you think about it too late . |
| 27 | A Co-op spokesman says : ‘ We have found an alternative firm but it has meant that instead of mortgage repayments being met for a year , they will now only be paid for six months — and the price has had to rise as well . ’ |
| 28 | Microscopes can only be used for close work , telescopes for viewing objects from arm 's length distance to infinity . |
| 29 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 30 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |