Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 This does mean that re-entry or back to nursing courses presently operating will not necessarily be approved retrospectively for the purpose by the National Boards .
2 I was informed today that elderly people who are trying to get into hospital are being put on to wards in which the nursing staff have not been designated specifically for the care of the elderly .
3 Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts .
4 But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . )
5 It has already been used twice for the circulation of internal mail and resealed by means of staples and Sellotape .
6 Additions were made at regular intervals and there was a pleasing rule that , even if a Sunday School scholar was unable to read , a book might nevertheless be lent out for the benefit of the family .
7 The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 .
8 The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends .
9 My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy .
10 It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment .
11 ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence .
12 I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses .
13 Because of the heavy clay content of the material , it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development .
14 He said : ‘ Our position is that we will not be making public statements about who we may or may not be putting forward for the mayor and deputy mayor 's position . ’
15 The weapon does not fire and can not be used again for the rest of the game .
16 He added : ‘ Although parents can not be blamed totally for the way children end up , we are able to shape their behaviour and offer them moral guidance .
17 If it can be abandoned in the case of the personal element of the council tax , it is hard to see why it can not be abandoned immediately for the poll tax .
18 The Plan Transmanche accord signed between the central and regional governments in February 1986 recognised that the Tunnel was not being built specifically for the benefit of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and that supportive investment in infrastructure , education and training would be necessary to exploit its potential and overcome its adverse effects on the Channel ports .
19 But please remember what Doctor Barton has pointed out — you are not being judged twice for the same crime .
20 This could also be carried out for the polymer , but as it makes no difference which one is taken ( both having started from ΔG M ) , equation ( 8.33 ) is more convenient to use .
21 Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships .
22 Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges .
23 To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night .
24 A 100MHz HyperSparc is now being talked up for the end of next year .
25 Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer .
26 If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there .
27 Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis .
28 ENGLAND 's visit to Pakistan may well be remembered mostly for the umpiring .
29 ENGLAND 's visit to Pakistan may well be remembered mostly for the umpiring .
30 It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast .
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