Example sentences of "that it be [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police .
2 On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation .
3 They have been established in recognition of the fact that it is pointless to wait for public sympathy and a change of political will to improve the level of basic old age pensions , and the quality of life for older people generally .
4 But community services for mentally handicapped people have demonstrated that it is possible to provide for quite severely disturbed , multiply-handicapped people in specially adapted ordinary flats and houses , as long as there are sufficient well-trained staff to provide good-quality care round the clock , and provided the staff themselves are well supported by senior professionals with the right experience .
5 There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs .
6 Such an effects-based approach is seen as being more efficient in that it is likely to capture for investigation a greater number of anti- competitive agreements and fewer of those that are innocuous .
7 Laczko and Phillipson do not suggest following the course taken by the United States and introducing an Age Discrimination in Employment Act , but they are convinced that it is important to press for legislation as well as seeking to improve the attitudes of employers .
8 The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all .
9 Soon after the publication of Barro 's studies it was pointed out by Leiderman ( 1980 ) that Barro 's model embodied two important but separate hypotheses — rational expectations and what is called structural neutrality — and that it was possible to test for rational expectations separately , and then , given rational expectations , test for structural neutrality .
10 It came to her that it was wrong to pray for anything simply because you felt you needed it personally .
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