Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In goodwill tours of the Six Counties he has been heard to ask for alcohol-free lager and other exotic drinks . |
| 2 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 3 | ‘ For external short courses ... staff usually asked to attend a course … for internal courses participants usually volunteer or are recommended to attend for personal development . |
| 4 | Access to these tunnels is limited to the town guard and to certain licensed adventurers who are permitted to search for ancient treasures amongst the ancient tombs and catacombs . |
| 5 | The system has been designed to allow for new developments . |
| 6 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |
| 7 | Various adjustments are made to allow for special circumstances affecting local costs of providing particular services . |
| 8 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 9 | EXCITING applications are beginning to emerge for dissolving glass , a material discovered accidentally in a telephone company 's laboratory . |
| 10 | Ralph Pickles says that although the product is not profitable yet , the price has been set to allow for expanded production . |
| 11 | ‘ I fear millions of hard-pressed customers are having to pay for past mistakes by the banks . ’ |
| 12 | Influenced particularly by Ravi Shankar , whose film music he had been hired to score for Western musicians . |
| 13 | We are continuing to lobby for full compensation for the commercial value of hens slaughtered and for equivalent testing legislation to be introduced throughout the European Community . |
| 14 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 16 | But the links were not consistent or sustained , in part perhaps because it was unclear what the general discussions could be expected to deliver for particular firms and structure plans , in particular , soon gained a reputation for being of little relevance for actual processes of development . |
| 17 | They can be tailored to cater for differing retirement ages as well as for varying contribution levels , which explains why some organisations are able to offer early retirement on very attractive terms . |
| 18 | It is essential , though , that attempts continue to be made to allow for differing intakes . |
| 19 | In this chapter an attempt will be made to look for possible links and conflicts between accounting and the strategic analysis of chapter 4 . |
| 20 | The machine can be made to look for common letter groups and then display them , massively magnified , together on the screen , helping a human expert to decide if they match . |
| 21 | There is then tremendous financial and social pressure on individual workers which can be used to account for high levels of commitment to the company . |
| 22 | A SPECIAL tax or a levy on lawyers should be used to pay for legal aid work , it was suggested yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to look for real clues round here — bloodstains and things . ’ |
| 24 | You may be invited to write for professional journals if you have a book published related to your career area . |
| 25 | Second , if money has to be raised to pay for public goods , society may wish to avoid taxing those whose incomes are already low . |
| 26 | The , the minute , the note last time said a pool of cand , they , they will be told that a pool of possible candidat candidates will be contacted to attend for final interview once it 's decided to go ahead with the new appointment , so you could the thr the the three , or whatever it is that you are not putting forward , that their , that our interest in them has ceased |
| 27 | The setting up , in 1991 , of the Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine , staffed mainly by art historians , has further demoted archaeological research ; the national plan for archaeology , which was to have been a blueprint for future research projects , has not yet received the promised funding of FFr17 million ( £1.7 million ; $2.9 million ) ; and their proposal that special forms of taxation be introduced to pay for urgent excavations ( with priority given to the most deserving cases ) has not been taken up . |
| 28 | The Ballyholme councillor said he would be continuing to push for similar re-lining work to be carried out in other affected areas of the town . |
| 29 | They will also be asked to subscribe for additional Zeneca shares by way of a rights issue to raise £1.3 billion . |
| 30 | This meeting also approved a circular letter which it is to be assumed canvassed for potential members . |