Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] for [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 2 | Little wonder , then , that the Tory party is laughed at even by its continental sister parties for being so backward and Victorian . |
| 3 | On the other hand , indirect taxes have also been criticized on welfare grounds for being regressive , the element of indirect tax embodied in commodity prices taking a higher proportion of the income from lower-paid groups . |
| 4 | From the time of the Norman invasion until the 14th century the Manor of Halling was involved more and more with church affairs for being a manor of the Bishop we find many important matters being decided here and many documents were signed here . |
| 5 | I do n't think the England Morrissey pines for is a particularly mythic one . |
| 6 | Du Cann was personally criticised by DTI inspectors for being ‘ incompetent ’ . |
| 7 | In this context Greenpeace also attacked the record of Scotland 's river purification boards for being less effective in enforcing legal guidelines than the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , its counterpart in England and Wales . |
| 8 | But as this noble institution has only ever rewarded women writers for being ladylike — Oldie pin-ups , maybe — or for assuming the pompous , androgynous mantle of — God help us — George Eliot , her exclusion can be read as a back-handed compliment . |