Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 2 | Unlike other higher profile running mothers , returning to training after the birth of a healthy son has been gentle for the 44-year old . |
| 3 | Since it has been weak for the past two months , calling for cheaper money is as irrelevant as wanting trees to blossom in an Arctic winter . |
| 4 | Despite the greater emphasis on additional facilities , it has been necessary for the ordinary financing arrangements to be enlarged by regular increases in quotas . |
| 5 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 6 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 7 | Doug Williams , a manager in the bank 's insurance group , says the operation has been profitable for the past two years and is already seen as a significant part of Chase 's retail service . |
| 8 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 9 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 10 | It has been traditional for the theoretical chemists to run series of seminars additional to those in Physical Chemistry , and it is expected that the Coulson Professor will wish to continue this . |
| 11 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 12 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 13 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |
| 14 | ‘ The team 's suspension system has been identical for the past 22 Grands Prix , that is since the beginning of the 1992 world championship . |
| 15 | Forty nine of the patients were under 50 at presentation ; this proportion has been constant for the past 10 years . |
| 16 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 17 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 18 | French diesel growth , buoyed by tax incentives on fuel , has been steady for the past decade , and spectacular between 1988 and 1991 , when the diesel share of the overall French market doubled . |
| 19 | It was opened in 1985 by its owners , Tim and Kit Kemp , and it is Kit who has been responsible for the interior decor throughout . |
| 20 | Fothergill , Gudgin , Kitson and Monk ( 1986 ) argue that one locational characteristic above all has been responsible for the relative decline of cities , and that is the problem of availability of land . |
| 21 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 22 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 23 | No further information on institution to be attended was available for the remaining three students . |
| 24 | When you create a string variable , the memory used is sufficient for the initial value of the string . |
| 25 | It is understood that no specific target date has been identified for completion of the Heywood link , but a spokesperson for the borough planning department which was instrumental in obtaining funding for the project , pointed out that the grants negotiated are available for the next three years during which time the majority of restoration work must be completed . |
| 26 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 27 | Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years . |
| 28 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 29 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 30 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |