Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that .
2 On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for .
3 See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers .
4 ‘ I would be delighted if you would consider being interviewed for the film .
5 When water levels drop the shoreline remains green , for it is seeded with a special grass which can survive being submerged for weeks at a time .
6 I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling .
7 " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ?
8 When will the tendering process be opened for the craft to which he referred in his statement ?
9 So if you 're doing A level psychol y'know I think perhaps you ought to say , ok what we 'll do is go for less depth but a more general approach .
10 What this , this union must do and what Labour must do is campaign for the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter .
11 What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon .
12 All we can do is wait for it to pass through .
13 Now , all we can do is wait for his report and get on with more work . ’
14 ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’
15 Now we committee erm with the resignation of Joan as ticket and subscription secretary , so all I can do is ask for any nominations from the floor , please or any volunteer who would like to follow Joan .
16 The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods .
17 All they could do was plead for commonsense or , in desperation , threaten a stern lecture from Anna Essinger , a device which usually succeeded when all else had failed .
18 Situations in which translation did not occur are accounted for .
19 Let those providing the service achieve a meaningful motivation from the enthusiasm in depth that they can see being generated for it .
20 Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself .
21 ‘ I do n't mind being criticised for my football nor indeed do the other players but personal abuse is something else .
22 They do n't mind being shaded for part of the day .
23 If you happen to be a policeman , however , or a friend of one of the ‘ lads ’ , but do not happen to share their attitudes towards black people , you are in an even more awkward and complicated position ; how can you avoid being spoken for by those who ‘ represent ’ you in the text ?
24 He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance .
25 They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead .
26 Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses .
27 His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years .
28 Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences .
29 If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared .
30 It is important to note , however , that the categories used in the Rolfe and Will lists may have been assigned for reasons of literary expediency , rather than as the result of rigorous classification .
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