Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] for [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are prepared to pay for cleaner water but they are reluctant to finance salary increases of several hundred per cent for chairmen who have been handed the privatisation jackpot . ’ |
| 2 | They 're all hoping for better days ahead . |
| 3 | In some sense it will be more difficult because you will not be able to ask for further details . |
| 4 | Because of the Westernisation of the Christian community , and because of their reputation for hard work and honesty , Goans have always be able to emigrate for higher pay . |
| 5 | Whereas these measures constitute a second phase of liberalisation … it will be necessary to provide for further market liberalisation including the reduction of barriers to the supply of electricity by producers to customers ; whereas the precise details of this third phase , which should complete the internal electricity market , can only be defined in the light of experience … |
| 6 | The vogue for advocacy and self-advocacy has been slow to develop for older people . |
| 7 | Her colleagues came and went ; they had got younger and younger , it seemed , as time went by ; those who were career-minded departed for lusher pastures , more Susies and Karens took their places , giggling in the cloakroom , muddling up the reservation cards . |
| 8 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 9 | There is SCSD-2 support for newer peripherals such as CD-ROM . |
| 10 | The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police . |
| 11 | Reallocation of space within the structure of roads is necessary to allow for wider pavements , and greater emphasis should be placed on creating pedestrianised areas . |
| 12 | It was unclear whether the Bloc demanded complete independence or was prepared to settle for greater autonomy within the Canadian confederation . |