Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] for [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | It needs to be adjusted for any unpresented cheques or unrecorded deposits . |
| 10 | 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 . ) |
| 11 | There is a case to be made for those starving and living in cardboard boxes just around the corner — |
| 12 | The GIS permits population estimates to be made for any arbitrary rectangular region on the map . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He seemed to be bound for such great things … |
| 16 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was a section at the top of Act Two where Joyce is supposed to be auditioning for some American producers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | C-FDFC , C-FTBA and C-FYQS are expected to be flying for some considerable time , as the Freighter 's life is measured in landings , and each of the trio have about 6,000 landings remaining , ensuring their continued employment . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 23 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 24 | The Mental Health Act Commission found in 1987 that the requirements of section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 , which made after-care for those compulsorily detained the joint responsibility of health and social services , were not consistently fulfilled ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1987 ) , while section 7 of the Disabled Persons Act 1986 , which required after-care to be provided for all those who had been in hospital for more than six months , was never implemented . |
| 25 | Detailed analysis of this kind should enable the most appropriate method of tension reduction to be chosen for each individual patient . |
| 26 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 27 | Positions have to be re-calculated for each new increment in time . |
| 28 | The percentage of synonyms to be expected for any given case , assuming that record allocation to addresses is entirely random and that synonyms are only stored after all home records , is as follows : |
| 29 | These days PCs are to be had for half that price , which has dragged down in turn the prices obtainable for software . |
| 30 | Red deer are ideal animals to be considered for such sustainable management , because they are already maintained by human intervention on open hill land , very different from the forest habitat which they once occupied in Scotland and still inhabit in the rest of Europe . |