Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 2 | In order to have my clothing coupons replaced I had to be vouched for by a responsible person , and Leslie 's uncle , who was a K.C. and Sheriff-Substitute of Fife and Kinross , kindly did this for me . |
| 3 | Property remained the precondition of political rights , and Ireton 's argument at Putney that " liberty can not be provided for in a general sense , if property [ is to ] be preserved " ( p. 73 ) was accepted by the ruling property-owners as a necessary truth of politics . |
| 4 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 5 | This can be done under the Planning Acts by way of a Special Development Order ( SDO ) , or it can be provided for in a Private Act concerned specifically with a project . |
| 6 | Search work will be charged for on a standard fee basis . |
| 7 | Even a temporary relapse back to old behaviour and its damaging consequences may itself hopefully be a therapeutic process because it acts as a reminder that recovery is a continuing process that has to be worked for on a continuing basis by each and every recovering person . |
| 8 | At the meeting , the most important point to convey is that your alternative proposals need not be to their detriment , either in financial terms or in the provision of any accommodation they may be hoping for in a new development on the site . |
| 9 | It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price . |
| 10 | After April , rents not collected at the end of the year will have to be paid for with a general rent increase because of the Government ‘ ring-fencing ’ of housing revenue accounts . |
| 11 | The project is to be paid for with a tailor-made $29m World Bank loan , which is scheduled to be approved by the Hungarian government later this month , before being signed off by the bank . |
| 12 | Phonelink will charge a licence fee for its software , while each unit used will be paid for at a pre-determined rate . |
| 13 | Armies also had to be fed , chiefly by purveyances ( or prises ) , that is to say by confiscating local crops and produce on the understanding that they would then or subsequently be paid for at a fair price , though often they were not . |
| 14 | In the event that the initiating member wishes additional professional services to be provided by the Network member submitting the suggestion , then such services should be paid for on a separate and non-contingent basis by the initiating member . |
| 15 | The young and the elderly are to be catered for in a small land reclamation scheme in New Skelton . |
| 16 | Other members of the International Law Commission felt that the European Communities is a unique organisation which did not need to be catered for by a particular Article . |
| 17 | Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ? |
| 18 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 19 | They should be accounted for separately only if the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other ; otherwise they should be accounted for as a single instrument . |
| 20 | Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home . |
| 21 | The large reduction in casualties for 16–18 year olds in Lothian can be accounted for by a significant reduction in motorcycle use by this age group . |
| 22 | Why this should be so will be discussed in a moment but it does enable the other observations to be accounted for by a single theory . |
| 23 | A problem is that mean values for fertility and survival probability decline with age , which may not necessarily be accounted for by a logarithmic transform . |