Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biological markers are becoming increasingly important for early detection of an increased cancer risk and as intermediate end points for chemoprevention trials . |
| 2 | Offensive weapons are becoming too expensive for smaller countries to afford ’ . |
| 3 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 4 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 5 | I 'm gettin' too old for that — it 's been ten years , time for me to chill . |
| 6 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this kind of caper , Willi , ’ Busacher said testily . |
| 9 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 10 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 11 | The attraction of nearly £2 million in prize-money and nine months of travelling throughout Europe is proving too strong for many , and the Tour receives dozens of telephone calls and letters from girls wanting to join the paid ranks . |
| 12 | For example , it is becoming increasingly necessary for much proposed new development to ensure that it is mentioned in the local plan . |
| 13 | The changing demographic composition also has implications for the physical housing stock — trends towards non-family , smaller households suggest that the traditional three-bedroom house is becoming less appropriate for present needs . |
| 14 | The personal desktop computer is growing too powerful for stand-alone desktop use . |
| 15 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 16 | Olson , then , is claiming too much for academic texts when he says ‘ an explicit writing system unambiguously represents meanings — the meaning is in the text ( 1977 , p. 264 ) . |
| 17 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 18 | By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism . |
| 19 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 20 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |