Example sentences of "be [verb] for [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgenthau has long been criticized for ignoring or underplaying economic factors . |
| 2 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 3 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
| 4 | It was n't a four-letter word , although when one uttered it , one might have been forgiven for thinking that it was . |
| 5 | He could have been forgiven for thinking that he was God 's gift to acting . |
| 6 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 7 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 8 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the thousands of kids at the game that a passer-by might have been forgiven for thinking that either Take That or New Kids On The Block were performing at Ibrox rather than Scotland 's football team . |
| 9 | With so much good will in the air one might have been forgiven for thinking that there were no differences worth talking about . |
| 10 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 11 | One could therefore have been forgiven for wondering if he took it all totally seriously . |
| 12 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 13 | Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem . |
| 14 | These feet are designed for catching and killing . |
| 15 | The nets , which can be up to 40 miles across , have also been blamed for snaring and killing thousands of sea birds , non-commercial fish and marine mammals . |
| 16 | In 1945 one could have been excused for believing that scarcely a wall could be left standing in the German capital after years of night raids by the RAF . |
| 17 | You could have been excused for believing that Maradonna had made a come back . |
| 18 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 19 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 20 | It goes without saying that old birds can , equally , be used for potting , but they are much less delicate , need very long slow and thorough cooking , a larger proportion of fat ham ( or pickled pork but not smoked bacon ) , and must be carefully drained of their cooking juices before they are prepared for chopping and pounding , otherwise sediment seeps through , collects at the bottom of the little jars and causes mould . |
| 21 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 22 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 23 | Selective reinforcement , the rewarding of required and approved behaviour , can be a useful technique for teachers , where praise and approval are used for shaping and maintaining desired student performance , especially in the early stages of learning when students need this kind of reassurance and when the work itself has not yet become intrinsically satisfying . |
| 24 | Its main disadvantage , the sorry state the diagram reaches when manually drawn out versions are used for monitoring and are continually amended , is no longer a disadvantage when a computer is used . |
| 25 | Their silks are used for furnishing and dress fabrics , ties , shawls , scarves and handkerchiefs . |
| 26 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |
| 27 | In any large , complex , and centralized state , these figures are needed for planning and evaluating social policy . |
| 28 | As well as milling corn , water-powered mills have been used for weaving and spinning . |
| 29 | The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State . |
| 30 | Among the Odonata all the legs are adapted for seizing and retaining the prey and are hardly ever used for locomotory purposes , while in the Bombyliidae the slender legs are used for alighting rather than walking . |