Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 2 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 3 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 4 | In 1990 , however , the illegal People 's United Democratic Front ( PUDEMO ) re-emerged after being dormant for several years [ see below ] . |
| 5 | ‘ The Lucy Ring was disbanded in 1943 , after being responsible for some invaluable work . |
| 6 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 7 | well they 'd of been here thought of been desperate for that would n't you ? |
| 8 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |
| 9 | The Indonesian Environment Minister , Emil Salim , has accused PT Tebor of being responsible for 80 per cent of all the waste from factories along the river . |
| 10 | Yet Arsenal , accused of being responsible for this perversion of their own style , kept their place among the goal-scoring vanguard despite the tightening of defences everywhere . |
| 11 | But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence . |
| 12 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 13 | WANTED : FEMALES OVER 16 any size , any shape to write to a bored 19-year-old male who 's fed up with being single for most of the year . |
| 14 | Comparable data from H 2 receptor antagonist maintenance trials are limited , but would seem to be similar for both cimitidine 400 mg once daily ( estimated reduction in DU relapse rate compared with placebo ranges from 26% to 37% ) , ranitidine 150 mg once daily ( estimated reductions of 24%. 39% and 48% ) and famotidine 20–40 mg once daily ( estimated 32–34% reduction in relapse rate ) . |
| 15 | Gibberellin , shown to be necessary for continued growth of dodder vine tips in aseptic cultures , also interacts with cytokinins and auxins in the growth of subapical segments ; it augments their effects . |
| 16 | This region has been found in the sea urchin gene to be necessary for maximal transcription in in vitro experiments , a similar function to that found in vivo for oligo I ( 26 ) . |
| 17 | Thus , the more documents that an indexing system is likely to embrace , the greater the number of index terms that are likely to be necessary for convenient retrieval ( given that the number of documents which constitute a scannable category does not vary ) . |
| 18 | ‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose . |
| 19 | ‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose . |
| 20 | By DNaseI footprinting , we could demonstrate that the 303 bp BglI-NaeI segment ( see Fig. 1 ) , including the RARE and the 80 bp fragment , is able to bind at least two different factors , but only one , the so called footprint I , is localized in the 80 bp region , known to be necessary for full transcriptional activity . |
| 21 | Certain occupations were held to be unfitting for baptized believers ; magic , idolatry , eroticism , games in the amphitheatre ranked as unsuitable occupations . |
| 22 | After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 23 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 24 | Rather , it is that the no boundary condition causes disorder to increase and the conditions to be suitable for intelligent life only in the expanding phase . |
| 25 | Syntactic structure does appear to be suitable for semantic purposes , one can develop compositional semantic rules that apply to syntactic structures . |
| 26 | Overall , the neck has a slightly chunky feel , although not so big as to be restrictive for those who play with a more classical style . |
| 27 | Alice could see that it was not going to be easy for any of them to admit obligation to Jasper , even though he was being correctly impersonal , sitting somewhat to one side of the scene waiting for their approval , the image of a responsible cadre . |
| 28 | The terms and conditions inserted in this layout will also need to be uniform for each type of bill or related electronic message . |
| 29 | I suppose it 's something to be grateful for that I can do anything useful for you , so stop worrying . |
| 30 | Later , I had cause to be grateful for that clause . |