Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 2 | He 'd been married , of course , and in those days perhaps it had been frowned upon for a married man to be friendly with a young girl , but that 's all it had been — friendship . |
| 3 | Our only hope for a TV of our own was our uncle John Hep who did the bins and could always be relied on for an old radio or a gramophone . |
| 4 | However , agencies are subject to inspection and statutory control by the Health Authority , and so generally can be relied upon for a high standard of service . |
| 5 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 6 | New plans to cut central — and republican — government spending are to be agreed upon for the second half of the year . |
| 7 | And no-one looked more livelier than Denis Hollywood in the last seven minutes of a contest that will be talked about for a long time to come . |
| 8 | Communist support can not be counted on for the tough measures needed to balance the social-security budget , reform state pensions and increase government revenues . |
| 9 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 10 | Even then , it is looked after for a further two or three weeks . |