Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ? |
| 3 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 4 | Mr Bruce said that the Social Work Director Paul Lee had been asked if the families ' lawyers could have access to all the interviews and medical examinations of the children that were performed for the Social Work Department . |
| 5 | With regard to the public interest , the important figure is the sum that is realised for the Scottish Bus Group as a whole . |
| 6 | Every country has different requirements , and it is vitally important for Welsh lamb producers to be fully aware of the type of lamb that is needed for the various export markets . |
| 7 | The curtilage of a building will include the ground that is used for the comfortable enjoyment of that building even though it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way ( Sinclair-Lockhart 's Trustees v Central Land Board ( 1950 ) 1 P & CR 195 ) . |
| 8 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 9 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 10 | The processing for the probabilistic syntactic analyser has been carried out on the same hardware that was used for the rule-based investigations ( i.e. a SUN Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) . |
| 11 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 12 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
| 13 | Consequently very different prices can be and are charged for the same or similar things . |
| 14 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |
| 15 | Adobe Systems Inc has licensed its PostScript software to Sony Corp so that it can offer a new software Raster Image Processor based on the Configurable PostScript Interpreter to be integrated into its existing News Unix workstations that drive output devices and are targeted for the Japanese market . |
| 16 | If you like night life and are heading for the Far East , do n't go to Japan . |
| 17 | To carry all that baby gear and be prepared for the small crises babies present us with so frequently , there 's nothing like a really good changing bag . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to win the junior at Wembley and be selected for the junior team for Brussels and then go into seniors and win the world championship at seventeen and be selected for the Olympics before I 'm twenty-one . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 20 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 21 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 22 | ‘ The Tasmanian Devil ’ has claimed over 350 victims in all quarters of the United States in the last year , and is noted for the savage ingenuity of his frenzied attacks . |
| 23 | When a healthy black person seeks employment and is tested for the sickle-cell anaemia gene , then is refused employment because there may be an extra risk under certain conditions , this is unfair . |
| 24 | The child must type the sentence with the words in the correct order , and is rewarded for the right answer by the picture coming to life — John jumps on his bike and cycles to school . |
| 25 | Griffin is hoping to run in the London Marathon and is aiming for the Olympic marathon in Barcelona . |
| 26 | This analysis is similar to that of shareholders ' funds and is required for the same reasons . |
| 27 | Mechanical woodpulp is acidic and is used for the cheapest types of paper like newsprint or certain types of cartridge paper . |
| 28 | The award scheme was launched in 1978 and is sponsored for the seventh consecutive year by American Express . |
| 29 | Since then he has toured and recorded extensively , and is known for the strong blues influence in his ballad and up tempo playing . |
| 30 | The Ben Hird Sword commemorates his seventy-two year association with the event , and is awarded for the greatest number of hits by a longbowman . |