Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It opened only this month , and already it 's noted for its cuisine and cellar . ’ |
| 2 | It is noted for its majestic arches , fine doorways and elegant windows . |
| 3 | It is noted for its high proportion of ex-civil servants : ‘ They are young chaps who by and large have contacts in the Civil Service and have a jolly good grounding of how the system works , ’ he says . |
| 4 | It is noted for its healthy lake air and well organised holiday facilities . |
| 5 | It is noted for its very high calibre loyalty and involvement in the local community . |
| 6 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 7 | It is valued for its ability to milk off poor grazing and for its polled factor , which is passed to all first-generation crossbred offspring . |
| 8 | Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one . |
| 9 | It was condemned for its ‘ two-dimensional characters ’ ( Mayne 1961:316 ) , lack of ‘ moral passion ’ ( Bergonzi 1961:297 ) , lack of profundity ( Price 1961:332 ) , ‘ misanthropic spleen ’ , and smugness ( Hope 1961:1486 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not say that it was withdrawn for its political content . ’ |
| 11 | The Nobel committee said it was given for their work towards a peaceful ending of apartheid and for laying the foundation for a democratic South Africa . |
| 12 | The little tern 's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage . |
| 13 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 14 | Its wool was not as fine as that of Merinos from Spain , or the southern hemisphere , but it was noted for its hardiness and foraging ability . |
| 15 | In the early years of the twentieth century it was noted for its hardiness and the bullocks ' ability to feed to heavy weights , while the cows won many Royal Show prizes for butterfat yields , though the quantity of milk was low . |
| 16 | It was noted for its lively horse and cattle fairs . |
| 17 | As well as printing bibles , it was noted for its support of culture and scholarship north of the border , with publications including the first Gaelic translation of the New Testament , MacPherson 's Ossian , and Jamieson 's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language . |
| 18 | Introduced in the Sixties , it was noted for its strong alloy shaft and the fact that it was safer to don a truss before swinging it too energetically . |
| 19 | It was needed for his marriage to Sharon Richardson , 22 . |
| 20 | The fact that it was used for his or another 's use could be established by questions and answers between the police and the defendant . |
| 21 | It was meant for his own depressed troops , but stand the statement on its head and the words offer huge encouragement to Spurs . |
| 22 | When Oxford railway station was refurbished three years ago , it was criticised for its lack of disabled facilities . |
| 23 | When Oxford railway station was refurbished three years ago , it was criticised for its lack of disabled facilities . |