Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The young and the elderly are to be catered for in a small land reclamation scheme in New Skelton . |
| 7 | 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 . |