Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 2 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 3 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 4 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 5 | This involved looking up the ailments common to exotic animals in order to be prepared for any searching questions by the proprietor . |
| 6 | For P , the weights have to be recalculated for each current year and , again , current patterns might have been unreasonable in the base year . |
| 7 | It is absolutely essential for this outbound leg to be flown for this specific distance if you are going to have any hope of reaching your Decision Height on the final approach with the field ahead of you . |
| 8 | Ring John was to be ransomed for 4 million écus to be paid within six months . |
| 9 | A system of ‘ National Assistance ’ was to be maintained for all those who fell outside the other benefits to be paid for by the national exchequer . |
| 10 | It needs to be adjusted for any unpresented cheques or unrecorded deposits . |
| 11 | To be repeated for two more days . ’ |
| 12 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 13 | There is a case to be made for those starving and living in cardboard boxes just around the corner — |
| 14 | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map . |
| 15 | Obviously further work needs to be done in this area , and long-term studies now in progress using antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and dipyridamole need to be evaluated for possible protective effects on the development of microvascular and macrovascular disease in diabetic subjects . |
| 16 | Since young managers can not expect to be rewarded for good short-term performances , there is less incentive to work for short-term results at the expense of longer-term benefits . |
| 17 | Lord Lawson did not specify which taxes should be increased but he appeared to be calling for higher indirect taxation , rather than higher income tax , to bring in an extra £6 billion . |
| 18 | If a separate PCR had to be done for each possible pathogen on each samples the work involved and the cost would be major drawbacks . |
| 19 | Further still , despite their gaps , Eadmer 's History and Anselm 's letters together allow a remarkably complete account of royal and papal negotiations and political vicissitudes to be given for these few years . |
| 20 | For groups to function at this level , opportunity has to be given for full social contact between members , and the emphasis has to be placed not on activity , but on group interaction . |
| 21 | He seemed to be bound for such great things … |
| 22 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 23 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 24 | He could get enough purchase to be selected for 68 first-grade VFL matches with Footscray around the war years . |
| 25 | In more and more instruments , the law of one price is free to apply : close financial substitutes are allowed to be swapped for one another , so trading ( arbitrage , in the argot ) can ensure that they fetch the same price . |
| 26 | They got to be stored for thirty two hours . |
| 27 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 28 | Unlike IBM 's SAA , he says , DCM is open and flexible enough to be customised for each particular site ; it allows for customers wanting to integrate other vendors ' hardware , which Bull will try to supply if necessary . |
| 29 | There was a section at the top of Act Two where Joyce is supposed to be auditioning for some American producers . |
| 30 | finally , local councils were to be formed for each former borough , urban district or parish council area in the new unitary authorities , and where wanted in the metropolitan areas . |