Example sentences of "be [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of accidents and the calculated average traffic flow at a junction are given for the 40 junctions in Table 3.2 . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 4 | The following CAA Safety Evenings have been arranged for the coming months : |
| 5 | Since we carried out these studies , much more sophisticated computational programs have been developed for the social sciences . |
| 6 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 7 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 8 | Continuously rolling recorder charts are checked for the distinctive blips . |
| 9 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 10 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 11 | Following your memorandum of 5 August 1993 regarding the above retaining wall , the structure has been checked for the common modes of failure and appears to perform satisfactorily . |
| 12 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 13 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 14 | Separate points values have also been included for the various Engineers School weapons carried by the War Wagon crew and described as part of the War Wagon rules . |
| 15 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 16 | And remember that you are walking for the psychological benefits as well as the fitness and slimness benefits . |
| 17 | Britain usually send six or seven for the relay team but for Los Angeles the selectors decided to rely on the sprinters that had been picked for the individual events . |
| 18 | Three factors , which acted in regions of dry cereal farming with particular intensity , have been blamed for the low levels of productivity ; first extensive common lands ; secondly , a maldistribution of landed property — the twin problem of the latifundia and the minifundia — combined with insecure tenures and high rents ; thirdly , a type of settlement where the majority of the agricultural population lived in large villages and towns . |
| 19 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 20 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 21 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 22 | The five categories of incisor and molar digestion are summarized for the avian predators in Table 3.14 . |
| 23 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 24 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 25 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 26 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 27 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 28 | Small wonder that scientists are searching for every lower temperatures , nearer still to absolute zero , where even more mysterious effects may be waiting . |
| 29 | Programme makers are searching for the best children 's museum in Britain . |
| 30 | The housekeeping departments has to ensure that all rooms are prepared for the new arrivals and when a room is vacated the chambermaids have to change the linen and clean the room ready for the next letting . |