Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 2 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 3 | But not all radio campaigns are in support of TV , and all TV ads are designed for an additional sense : sight . |
| 4 | A cruel generalisation , but probably justified , would be to suggest that the large majority of curricula in Africa are designed for an ideal situation — namely a uniform six-year-old entry , relatively homogeneous in age and culture , equal in sex and of average size ( say 30–45 in a class ) who attend regularly , repeat seldom and complete their primary course . |
| 5 | The actors have been booked for an extended run at Bradford Royal Infirmary by the local hospital trust . |
| 6 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 9 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although tests of details are not always necessary , they are needed for an external audit , when evidence of financial values is required and when weaknesses have been exposed during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 13 | His report called Transforming the Dinosaurs has been produced for an independent think tank group called DEMOS . |
| 14 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 15 | The 70-bedroom Salutation Hotel , Perth , Scotland , one of the Embassy hotels bought by John Jarvis in 1990 , has been sold for an undisclosed sum to Strathmore Hotels . |
| 16 | The Bell Hotel in Church Street , Tewkesbury , has been sold for an undisclosed sum . |
| 17 | A judgement debt is where a debtor has been sued for an unpaid account and the court has found in favour of the creditor and issued judgement against the debtor . |
| 18 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 19 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 20 | In addition , evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa . |
| 21 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 22 | Even where such process does not demonstrate the incompatibility of the firms seeking a merger it will frequently happen that the actual merger will need to be delayed for an agreed period so as to phase in the new arrangements . |
| 23 | An exporter to reduce his foreign exchange risk may borrow in the currency of his expected export receipt or an importer may require a currency loan to pay for imports which may be re-processed for an overseas market . |
| 24 | No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies . |
| 25 | The maximum pull-out torque can be calculated for an n-phase motor with a peak static torque of when one phase is excited . |
| 26 | But even then , such estimates do not take into account certain types of income which must be included for an accurate picture . |
| 27 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 28 | We must be prepared for an ironic result — that the reduction of US military spending will lead to an increase in Japan 's defence spending . |
| 29 | I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … . |
| 30 | Toffler-junkies should be prepared for an intellectual placebo . |