Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 2 | Industry critics further point out that the EIUG 's worries last year about sharp price increases did n't materialise , and such international price comparisons as there are provide little support for its case . |
| 3 | Secondly we have already noted that banks are opening more accounts for lower-paid people , alongside the trend towards payment of wages through bank accounts rather than in cash . |
| 4 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 5 | Former Home Affairs Minister Lee Sahng Yeon replaced Suh Dong Kwon as Director of the Agency for National Security Planning , after several Agency members had been found illegally campaigning for the opposition during the election . |
| 6 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 7 | This , however , is of little use unless the score has been fully studied beforehand , and the passages of which the effect can not be heard mentally marked for special attention at performance . |
| 8 | A menu can be arranged specially to cater for various tastes and requirements , champagne starts at around £35 per bottle and there is a charge of £150 for the room hire . |
| 9 | A machine that would be considered fully loaded for Windows 3.1 becomes a minimal NT-suitable configuration . ’ |
| 10 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 11 | Gupta says , it will be announcing further support for other platforms later in the year . |
| 12 | In Darcy 's Utopia there will be elections , but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like . |
| 13 | The workhouses could be made more fitted for the accommodation of orphans , the sick and the aged poor . |
| 14 | A keen cricketer , until last year Mr. Collar could be seen regularly umpiring for Medstead . |
| 15 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 16 | By marketing the software in this way they will , at least , ensure adequate support , having some 30 local offices round the country , and much of the software would be supplied ready tailored for the user . |
| 17 | Harry Mulholland also believes that a good wool carpet can be cleaned professionally to last for years and years . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 19 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 20 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 21 | — I 'm sittin' here waitin' for nothing . |
| 22 | A severable contract is generally one where goods are to be delivered in instalments which are to lie separately paid for ( see paragraph 11–08 above ) . |
| 23 | A wide range of factors has been put forward to account for the urban-rural shift and its phasing over time ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 24 | Over the years , many types of explanation have been put forward to account for ‘ the facts ’ . |
| 25 | A number of explanations have been put forward to account for the thick crust and high mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau which also help to explain the great crustal shortening indicated by the post-collision convergence of the Indian and Eurasian Plates . |
| 26 | But , with the exception of image processing systems ( see p 62 ) , computers and the documents they generate have only added to the printed matter which covers most desks : even today 95% of business information is paper-based , and every year millions of working hours are wasted just searching for information . |
| 27 | A major reason papers are fighting so haar for readers is the decline in sales as families like the buy fewer papers . |
| 28 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 29 | Varied and nutritional meals were becoming prohibitively priced for large sections of the student body who had to survive on steamed buns , noodles and low-quality meat and vegetables , and that too usually in very small quantities . |
| 30 | During the twenty-nine years between 1660 and 1689 , many thousands of nonconformists chose to disregard the Code and participate in secret ‘ conventicles ’ ; many hundreds of them who were caught subsequently languished for years in gaol . |