Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is an intarsia chart that needs only be joined for the vertical sections . |
| 2 | The significance of the defeat on Monday of Ken Livingstone , Brent East MP , could only be calculated for the first time yesterday when the detailed voting figures were published . |
| 3 | During the two phases of Pilot schemes , which were essentially experimental , detailed policy could only be formulated for the short term but , as the new system is becoming established , this letter is able to state policy for a longer period . |
| 4 | It 's a privilege ; I 'd say more , but I would only be cut for the usual reason , lack of |
| 5 | The labour-only sub-contractor , however , although occasionally employed on an hourly rate , will invariably be allocated work on a unit rate or lump sum basis and will only be paid for the actual work produced . |
| 6 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 7 | Faster responses will only be found for the activated meaning |
| 8 | The conscript troops of the MVD could not entirely be blamed for the ill fit of their uniforms , for their slouched shoulders , for their callow and chilled faces . |
| 9 | The overall award went to the Chesham Building Society but because the awards were based on performance over the last 10 years , the Royal Bank should soon be pitching for the top spot . |
| 10 | The way would thus be opened for the real attack , by 60,000 men landed simultaneously at Rye , Winchelsea , Hastings and Pevensey , who would march on London . |
| 11 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
| 12 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 13 | In this they may have been not entirely alone , but it is a serious charge , and it would be a brave man who would assert that it could not be substantiated for the British audio-visual scene as well . |
| 14 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 15 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 17 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 18 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 19 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 20 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 21 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 22 | He was worried about the enormous expense involved , and he asked whether St James 's Palace , now empty , could not be used for the Foreign Office . |
| 23 | Shilton could not be blamed for the 2–0 defeat and made one superb tackle , denying Angell 15 yards outside his box . |
| 24 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 25 | Therefore , while defensive measures must not be abandoned for the foreseeable future , we firmly believe sustainability will only be achieved by injecting an environmental imperative into the developmental process . |
| 26 | This is because , at the time this study was done , a machine could not be programmed for the next job while it was engaged in cutting . |
| 27 | A tea and dinner will not be paid for the same evening 's work . |
| 28 | This is all the more requisite as there are certain uses in which the to infinitive can not be substituted for the bare form ( e.g. ( 13 ) ) and , vice versa , where the bare infinitive can not replace its counterpart with to , as in ( 14 ) . |
| 29 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 30 | As The Sunday Times said , ‘ When you finish The Kitchen God 's Wife , you will already be yearning for the next one , and the one after that . ’ |