Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 4 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 5 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 6 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 7 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 8 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 9 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 10 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 11 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 12 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 13 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 14 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 15 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 16 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 17 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 18 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 19 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 20 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 21 | In front gardens , lawns are paved over for off-street parking space and in the road more intrusion results from signs , barriers and other traffic-related street furniture . |
| 22 | look it does n't matter now because we 're going out for some milk , here |
| 23 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 24 | But go up to your room and get your bag packed for what you , ready for you 're not going straight to Leanne 's you 're coming back for half hour or so ? |
| 25 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 26 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 27 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 28 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 29 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 30 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |