Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 's needed urgently and he ca n't find anywhere to park , he could waste precious minutes while someone 's lying dying for want of his attention ! ’ |
| 2 | it was only ten to eight and I got up because I thought I was getting late for work and I 'd better get moving . |
| 3 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 4 | This last short section concerns the fate of large institutional sites in the countryside , principally redundant hospital sites which are becoming available for redevelopment as the result of community care and other policies . |
| 5 | Dissatisfied with the quality of many land availability studies , the DoE commissioned Coopers and Lybrand to carry out a study to assess and report on the varying assessments and assumptions about new housing made by the planning authorities and house builders , and to assess the extent to which both the provision in plans and land which is made available for housing takes account of the requirements of the market for new private sector housing' . |
| 6 | A product where the dosage must be finely calculated arithmetically from the instruction data provided to arrive at the quantity of product needed required more thought and more decisions than a product dispensed semi-automatically via a dispenser or one which is supplied ready for use . |
| 7 | Proposals include ; increased powers which will allow environmental Health Officers to impound food which is deemed unfit for consumption , introduction of ‘ use by ’ rather than ‘ sell by ’ dates on perishable goods , registration of both food-selling premises and flocks of egg-laying hens , the pasteurisation of milk from sheep and goats , an increase in the control of temperatures at which food is stored , and the irradiation of some foods . |
| 8 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're doing this for Fudge and Roz down here . |
| 10 | They could n't quite work out what we were doing looking for golf clubs in the wood — balls yes , clubs no . |
| 11 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , multiple persons and entities , such as ‘ shipowners , ’ ‘ charterers , ’ ‘ possessors of property shipped , ’ ‘ masters of the vessel , ’ their ‘ agents , ’ and even ‘ ships ’ are referred to as carriers in bill of lading law and practice once they are made responsible for loss or damage to cargo . |
| 13 | " This Meeting having considered an overture of the Kirk Session of Bowmore … respecting the procuring of Mortcloths for the better and ordinary Classes of people … do hereby agree to Guarrantee to the said Kirk Session , that whatever sum shall be laid out in the purchase of the said Mortcloths , the Princl. sum and interest shall be reapid to the Session , before they are rendered unfit for use … |
| 14 | For , like the Lugbara ancestors , they are held responsible for sickness and affliction , especially when they occur in contexts of social strife and conflict . |
| 15 | the hall was , they 're getting ready for lunch |
| 16 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 17 | They 're building more for council houses . |
| 18 | In both cases they were left untouched for compensation purposes if the entitlement arose pre-petition . |
| 19 | To implement the Children 's Traffic Club as soon as it is made available for use by General Accident . |
| 20 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 21 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | The investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales could be turned into a perfect television event , and they recommended in addition that he be made available for radio and television interviews . |
| 23 | See it 's funny , he used to think all people just , he used to say , oh he 's doing that for show . |
| 24 | A few last checks by the Bridge Commander , and it was declared ready for traffic , seven minutes ahead of time . |
| 25 | ‘ It was only when they came to see me and talked about it that he found out that when she went to bed it was to get ready for sex , while he stayed downstairs because he thought she was n't interested . ’ |
| 26 | In other cases it seems that some assessment was made , at a high level , of the general condition of a school , so that it was considered inappropriate for project status . |
| 27 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 28 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 29 | At night , when he was getting ready for bed , he would switch on his bedside lamp and stand with his back to it so he could see his shadow against the far wall . |