Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be done for rhetorical reasons and is a common ploy in politics . |
| 2 | This may be removed for cramped working conditions |
| 3 | This could be extended for other , larger networks and relationships established between number of trains , frequency and distance . |
| 4 | The great majority of the 150-strong audience at the independent Polam Hall School supported Mr Fallon although only a few will be voting for real on April 9 . |
| 5 | If you have mastered cut and sew , this can be used for other shaping , for example by knitting a straight sleeve and cutting it to the shape required . |
| 6 | This can be used for filled areas that always adjust their shape to fill between other objects . |
| 7 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 8 | This means that , although commitment accounting can improve budgetary control and as such may be used for periodic reports to managers , professional practice in the UK precludes its use in the final accounts . |
| 9 | 45 kilos of plastic Much of that could be saved for other uses and not simply destroyed . |
| 10 | Management consultants These may be engaged for certain specific tasks such as evaluating the bid , developing a post acquisition stategy or helping with submissions to merger control authorities . |
| 11 | These should be examined for early features , such as architectural fragments incorporated into them , and an assessment made of their original date , any changes through time , and former uses . |
| 12 | ANY OF THESE MIGHT BE HAPPENING FOR OTHER REASONS . |
| 13 | ‘ These will be used for brake-van rides at Llanuwchllyn and will be free for passengers holding tickets for a full journey . |
| 14 | There 's a wide range of boxes to mark the various stages of your project , and these can be coloured for extra emphasis . |
| 15 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 16 | The classic instance concerns a Swedish hoard of the eighteenth century from Lohe , the examination of which led to the establishment of the principle ( fig. 28 ) , but much the same can be done for other well-documented periods such as seventeenth-century England . |
| 17 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 18 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 19 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |