Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 3 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 4 | Increases in the costs of transport , housing and health charges and other costs for food , heating and clothing , are becoming unbearable for retired people in my part of the world . |
| 5 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 6 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 7 | Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use . |
| 8 | It provides information on all materials that are deemed appropriate for these awards . |
| 9 | The polysorbates are deemed responsible for these changes . |
| 10 | Storage not exceeding the following heights are considered suitable for Ordinary Hazard systems . |
| 11 | As noted above , some prerogative powers are considered unsuitable for judicial review . |
| 12 | One of the reasons why women are more vulnerable than men with the introduction of highly technologised industry is that female workers are considered inappropriate for mechanised industry . |
| 13 | THINGS are looking rosy for one Darlington businessman thanks to the election . |
| 14 | £50,000 has been made available for such upgrading work in the 1992/93 Capital Budget . |
| 15 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 16 | Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ . |
| 17 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before the shutdown so that any outstanding transactions may be completed . |
| 18 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before a LIFESPAN shut down so that any outstanding transactions may be given sufficient time to complete . |
| 19 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 20 | Augmenting Britain 's direct contributions to the EEC are numerous ways in which specific British resources are made available for common EEC exploitation . |
| 21 | Well Mrs you 're pleading guilty for these offenses and we 've listened to what Mr has said on your behalf and we 're going to be as lenient as we can in the circumstances . |
| 22 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 24 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 25 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 26 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 27 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 28 | Weekends are getting popular for closing deals : COSE was n't a deal until the evening of Sunday March 14 . |
| 29 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 30 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |