Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pleasures of being a parent speak for themselves . |
| 2 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 3 | Yet , looking down today from these Wessex Heights , there seems to be no reason to fear for the future of this supremely beautiful landscape . |
| 4 | One prisoner , condemned to transportation , found there to be no ship leaving for Botany Bay in the near future . |
| 5 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
| 6 | The political background was likely to be a country clamouring for tougher punishments and wanting to be convinced that crime will be dealt with , while expert reports called for less resort to prison sentencing . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 8 | There 's going to be a lot to do for a holiday . ’ |
| 9 | To measure or assess processes there has to be a strategy adopted for sampling from what is an infinite population . |
| 10 | The strongest rejection of the new approach tends to be a reluctance to charge for the product . |
| 11 | This is expected to be a ballot calling for industrial action . |
| 12 | If there is to be a time taken for a further hearing before me in relation to the question of interest and or a structured settlement , I regret that the parties will have to follow me , not purely from Chelmsford to London but thereafter to Maidstone . |
| 13 | Sickness may be considered to be a punishment inflicted for neglect of certain taboos . |
| 14 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 15 | If you do not have a heated bathroom then invest in a high wall-mounted heater , which has to be the type approved for bathroom use , and should be connected through the wall to a power source outside the room . |
| 16 | There would appear to be the need to develop for these and possibly many other applications , heat sensors sufficiently resistant to fire and high temperatures to act not only as actuating mechanisms for automatic systems but also to provide continuous readings of temperature in their permanent locations . |
| 17 | This is a position which requires the researcher to adopt a false role , for example , pretending to be an author looking for atmosphere for a book or pretending to be a management trainee with a firm . |
| 18 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 19 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |