Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million .
2 For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension .
3 Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations .
4 Index figures are calculated for each artist in each succeeding year .
5 Recall and precision scores are calculated for each search .
6 Because the concern here is with general trends and not annual variations , the rates are calculated for five year blocks .
7 Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another .
8 Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service .
9 Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe .
10 Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area .
11 Lists are given for each centre .
12 Median and interquartile ( 25th to 75th centiles ) range ( IQR ) values are given for each group , since the data do not conform to a Gaussian distribution .
13 The RI ( α ) for the TCR- β mutant thymocyte sample is 28 , meaning that 28% of the chromosomes have undergone a VαJα rearrangement. 5'J α 1/C α ratios ( shown in table below ) are given for different DNA samples .
14 The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books .
15 They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love .
16 The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time .
17 Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time .
18 An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time .
19 These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes .
20 ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption .
21 Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 .
22 That system had been intended for some time .
23 Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed .
24 The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid .
25 The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects .
26 Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time .
27 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
28 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
29 Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason .
30 CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason .
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