Example sentences of "be [verb] for [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
| 2 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 3 | The resulting strings produced by applying the rules are searched for in the lexicon in the normal way . |
| 4 | To some extent they are compensated for by the availability of a wealth of clinical material , and by the experience of working in urban and rural communities . |
| 5 | Such betrayals , when not over-taxing the as yet limited mental resources of the infant , are compensated for by the acquisition of new much praised skills and satisfactions . |
| 6 | The reef , described by the World Conservation Union as more diverse than Australia 's Great Barrier reef , has been threatened for over a decade by the proposed building of a second airport for the island . |
| 7 | Whatever you are looking for in a holiday , we defy you not to find it in Majorca . |
| 8 | ‘ It all depends , ’ Henry had said , ‘ what you are looking for in a relationship ! ’ |
| 9 | You simply have to weigh up your personal circumstances and what you are looking for from the job , keeping in mind any long-term plans that you may have for your future career development . |
| 10 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 11 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 12 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 13 | Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards . |
| 14 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |
| 15 | That that 's all we 're looking for at the moment . |
| 16 | Precisely what you 're looking for in a watch . |
| 17 | Police have released a description of the man they 're looking for in the Tewkesbury attack . |
| 18 | What you 're , what you 're aiming for in the future ? |
| 19 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 20 | This means that they should be clear about what they are to look for in the performance and how they are to judge these points . |
| 21 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 22 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |
| 23 | It has been recognised for over a century that the internal anal sphincter relaxes in response to rectal distension , a phenomenon called the rectanal inhibitory reflex . |
| 24 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 25 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 26 | Up to 15 people with brain injuries are cared for at the centre each day and the main feature of the extension will be a large activity room . |
| 27 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 28 | Since then he has been cared for at the Airedale General Hospital . |
| 29 | For the last hundred years the picturesque ruins of the Augustinian nunnery ( founded around 1200 ) have been cared for by the Iona Cathedrals Trust . |
| 30 | Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health . |