Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] be [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , my thanks go to David Bowley for without him I would never have learnt the art of letching which is essential for the editorial role . |
| 2 | Since each department is responsible for its own buying it is difficult for the store to buy in bulk , and thus cheaply |
| 3 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 4 | In the colonial context , the word ‘ participation ’ had an uncomfortable ring about it , quite alien to the ideology of the political ‘ status quo ’ , and the colonial administration and agricultural extension service knowing what was good for the African cultivator . |
| 5 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 6 | But we must not forget about the private riders with Hondas — the RS is a good basic machine and if the team works hard on tuning it 's possible for the riders to be very fast . |