Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no fun for my colleagues to be away . |
| 2 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 3 | His manner was pleasant but she was unresponsive ; she stood , motionless in the middle of the room , as though waiting patiently for her services to be called upon . |
| 4 | We dread having to take her to the vets for her nails to be cut . |
| 5 | She asked for her boys to be taken into care because she was terrified that she would do it again . |
| 6 | Physically she had to admit he still turned her on and probably always would , but , having found out just how irritating he could be to live with she was furious to discover that his sex appeal was far too potent a force for her feelings to be seriously affected , no matter how cross with him she felt at the moment . |
| 7 | Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent . |
| 8 | And surely it would be nicer for her parents to be alone together , would n't it ? |
| 9 | Also — a card was signed and sent with flowers to greet Janice Glen on her birthday and Janice later telephoned the Office to ask for her thanks to be given to you all . |
| 10 | Also — a card was signed and sent with flowers to greet Janice Glen on her birthday and Janice later telephoned the Office to ask for her thanks to be given to you all . |
| 11 | Susan said , loudly enough for her words to be clearly audible , ‘ That is not what I said President . |
| 12 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 13 | The section gives wide powers for the Council to arrange for its functions to be discharged by committees , sub-committees and individuals [ whether members of the Law Society staff or not ] . |
| 14 | Yet at the time of the Hundred Years War , with the concept of the nation state , and of the need for its interests to be defended , taking root , the raison d'être of war was slowly changing . |
| 15 | For its missiles to be effective , China would require a source of data about possible targets . |
| 16 | She could imagine herself choosing a likely house , watching for its inhabitants to be out , gliding into it , getting her hands around valuables — after all , she did know what was valuable and what was n't . |
| 17 | For , whatever Clarke feels , the debate is also too important for its details to be kept behind locked doors . |
| 18 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 19 | As a direct consequence of the Torrie proposal it is also understood that the university 's application for its collections to be granted nationally registered status — giving access to a range of vital funding — is likely to be rejected by the Museum and Galleries Commission . |
| 20 | There were , too , plenty of places for their stories to be published . |
| 21 | It suited both parties for their accommodations to be by ‘ gentleman 's agreement ’ . |
| 22 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 23 | While the three of them stood by the pump in the stableyard , waiting for their horses to be brought out , George nodded his head towards Gareth Davis , who was across the other side of the yard , well out of earshot . |
| 24 | For example , it used to be the time when farmers asked for their crops to be blessed for the coming year . |
| 25 | The packings must also be marked in such a way as to enable the person responsible for their movements to be identified ; that person must undertake to supply any Customs officer with any information that may be necessary to ensure the proper application of this simplified procedure . |
| 26 | For example : it was found that many staff had made no provision for their phones to be answered when they were absent from their desks . |
| 27 | He warned : ‘ It is easy to be has-beens at 21 with nothing in thee future and for their lives to be ruined . |
| 28 | The English feared for their lives to be shut out of a keep ; but the Welsh were more wary of being shut in . |
| 29 | The guidelines say that doctors should seriously consider requests from patients with incurable diseases who ask for their lives to be ended . |
| 30 | OK they 're quite happy for their girls to be academic but daring to be more positive about being ordered outside that because it involves such a lot , having control over your own body , again you know , abortion raises its hairy head again . |