Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ? |
| 2 | The helpful handbook puts it succinctly — ‘ Faxes that are hard for humans to read are hard for FAXgrabber to read ’ . |
| 3 | Drastic though the remedy is , no firm of solicitors can realistically afford to risk being unable for want of an appropriate agreement to remove any partner whose professional or personal conduct has become an embarrassment or worse . |
| 4 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 5 | She had informed Elizabeth Mowbray of the girls ' exchange of identities — information which the duchess had received thankfully , believing the exchange to have been necessary for Anne 's safety . |
| 6 | For every good read , like Harry Harrison 's Plague from Space I ( 1966 ) — in which an apparently natural infection turns out to have been tailor-made for Homosapiens by odious extraterrestrials — there are countless bum offerings . |
| 7 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 8 | He even seems to have been responsible for Sigismund 's most formal letters , those addressed to the eastern emperor . |
| 9 | At the same time , modernisation theory still influential in the 1960s , suggested that the removal of obstacles to change was necessary for development and a major obstacle in Latin America was the hacienda . |