Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 2 | The count himself appears to have been anxious for an English husband for his daughter , and negotiations opened for her marriage to Edward III 's fourth son , Edmund Langley . |
| 3 | Chang was alleged to have been responsible for a 1976 letter-bomb attack which had injured Taiwan 's Governor , Shieh Tung-min . |
| 4 | A destructive flood was an annual possibility , and the god of Heaven Anu and the storm-god Enlil , who were believed to have been responsible for the decision to destroy mankind , were invoked in the incantation passages of the legend of the Flood . |
| 5 | Kintanar , 42 , was believed to have been responsible for the NPA 's post-Marcos strategy of trying to increase the organization 's capacity to extend its guerrilla war from its traditional rural sphere . |
| 6 | Sub-commissioner José Amedo and Inspector Michel Domi nguez had participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación ( GAL ) , which were said to have been responsible for the assassination of 22 ETA leaders and alleged sympathizers in Basque areas of southern France between December 1983 and July 1986 . |
| 7 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |