Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look far too young to be a Mayor , but you 've just finished being Mayor for Lewes . |
| 2 | The worse thing I 've ever done is wax for my legs I did it once mhm |
| 3 | Once SAVE 's case for the significance of the building was made , its retention as part of the London scene was accepted by all the parties involved . |
| 4 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 5 | Also included were proposals for the development of a common foreign and security policy and , ultimately , common defence . |
| 6 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 7 | Also discussed were plans for regional broadcasting . |
| 8 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 10 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 11 | As already noted there have been calls for national statements to encourage central and local government to develop sensitive and appropriate family and child care policies , and good child care service and practice . |
| 12 | Yet although Motion may have started to do honour to Larkin 's achievement , what his book predominantly conveys is distaste for the man . |
| 13 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |