Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 32 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 33 | Cesar appears to have been destined for a clerical career from the start . |
| 34 | Other strong promoters are optimized for a tight RNA polymerase binding , the following steps leading to promoter clearance being less efficient ( 4–6 ) . |
| 35 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 36 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 37 | Councillors are hoping for a settlement without the need for court action but are prepared for a legal battle which could take several years during which time both sides could run up massive costs running into many tens of thousands . |
| 38 | Finally , the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time . |
| 39 | A Land Rover spokesman said : ‘ Our vehicles are not designed to tumble down mountains but they are built for a tough life . ’ |
| 40 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 41 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 42 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 43 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 44 | That means programs have still not been written for a whole range of complex new tasks that GPs will be asked to do . |
| 45 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 46 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 47 | The figures are costed for a single person . |
| 48 | Johnson was used to red cards , but this particular coupon was to signal a different kind of brush with authority , a sign that the player had been selected for a random dope test . |
| 49 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 50 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 51 | Another implication of this advice is that teachers need not begin keeping cupboards full of evidence from every pupil over three year periods in case they are selected for a random sample check on teacher assessments . |
| 52 | Most products are made for a particular customer or to a particular order . |
| 53 | ‘ Each month approximately 300 new requests are made for an occupational therapist assessment and this level of demand far outstrips the borough 's available resources . ’ |
| 54 | Many other sizes are made for an enormous range of industrial uses , but flexibility limits their application for kite spars , and in many cases the wooden dowel is superior . |
| 55 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 56 | Such terms are used for a wide range of contracts ; this book , however , is primarily concerned with the drafting of standard terms to govern contracts for the supply , or purchase , of goods ( in particular ) or services . |
| 57 | The same symbols are used for a two-handed process chart in which a detailed description of what each hand is doing separately is provided ( Fig. 1.20 ) . |
| 58 | Of course very few machines are used for a single application and in practice you need to balance the requirements of each application that you want to run . |
| 59 | The company also introduced user-based licensing with OpenVMS — licences are offered for a specified number of users or an unlimited number . |
| 60 | This has provided the statistics that are needed for a new approach to be adopted for setting reserves and premium rates . |