Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 2 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 3 | Each concept is represented by a frame , which contains slots that may be filled differently for separate instances of the same concept . |
| 4 | Most beans need soaking ( preferably overnight ) before use , and all beans must be boiled rapidly for 10 minutes to destroy any toxins . |
| 5 | Engineers are devising a modular robot ( see picture ) comprising standard sections that can be joined together for specific applications . |
| 6 | Tranquillizers should be prescribed only for short periods to help patients through crises where their levels of anxiety are such that their coping ability is grossly impaired . |
| 7 | Tyler recommended that pesticide tests be developed specially for hot countries . |
| 8 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) can be solved analytically for spherical impactors in an isothermal atmosphere if and C H are held constant . |
| 9 | However , it might be that , at first , such tests should be set only in those subjects which constitute the ‘ core curriculum ’ to be instituted nationally for all schools . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean apart from the cheques to be written out for these accounts ? |
| 11 | All countries that are committed to non-proliferation and all the signatories to the treaty must be prepared both for greater resources to go into the inspection process and to submit to greater surveillance . |
| 12 | The Labour Party has been making noises which suggest that things would be made easier for these schools , but I believe its welcome back would be a stab in the back for most of them . ’ |
| 13 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 14 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 15 | AS WE SEARCH the economic indicators for those green shoots of recovery , we should , perhaps be looking too for other signs to help restore confidence in a book world currently so high on gloom . |
| 16 | These taxes , to be imposed annually for three years , were intended both to raise revenue and to prevent the conversion of arable land to pasture . |
| 17 | My own opinion , however , is that now that the returns on bank savings have plummeted , investors will be searching desperately for new avenues of investment and shares and property will certainly be high on the list . |
| 18 | But there are contradictions between these principles and judicial practice , and these can be exploited advantageously for corporate victims . |
| 19 | Applying those considerations to the present case , their Lordships are of the view that since the plaintiff was well aware that the defendants would be acting also for other vendors of comparable properties and in so doing would receive confidential information from those other vendors , the agency contract between the plaintiff and the defendants can not have included either ( a ) a term requiring the defendants to disclose such confidential information to the plaintiff or ( b ) a term precluding the defendants acting for rival vendors or ( c ) a term precluding the defendants from seeking to earn commission on the sale of the property of a rival vendor . |
| 20 | United States officials claimed that most of the nuclear-related technology that Iran was seeking to obtain from China , Brazil and elsewhere could be used equally for nuclear weapons or civilian uses . |
| 21 | Such a procedure could be used even for these words . |
| 22 | Classrooms as such tended to disappear ; they were replaced by areas and bays which could be used both for informal workshops and for formal teaching . |
| 23 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 24 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 25 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 26 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 27 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 28 | For example , Goody and others have argued that the labelling of pre-colonial West African states as ‘ feudal ’ has obscured the all-important fact that the control of the ruling class did not operate through the control of land , and that therefore Marx 's ideas can not be used directly for these societies . |
| 29 | In less than two years the packs could be used routinely for all children in local authority care . |
| 30 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |