Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 2 | Now we can only hope that things are resolved quickly enough for the developments to be finished in time for the 1994 Open . ’ |
| 3 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 4 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 5 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 6 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 7 | It seems that in his habit of making films that are considered too long for the US cinema circuits , Cameron may have unwittingly provided film companies with a money-spinning way of making people pay to see the same movie twice . |
| 8 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 9 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 10 | IF you have had problems with operations being cancelled or been waiting too long for an operation , please contact the EADT newsdesk on 0473 282387 . |
| 11 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 12 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 13 | Believe me , I know — I have reason to know now , for while you were gone I 've tried it and am waiting even now for the blow to fall ! — that there is no future for me in the world I left behind so long ago . ’ |
| 14 | Many of the drivers are Brunel enthusiasts , but others are going along just for the ride . |
| 15 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 16 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 17 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 18 | Challenging though the course is , the lessons are laid out well for the beginner and the tests can be the fill-in type or multi-choice . |
| 19 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 20 | The night duty men are also called early from their beds to parade for the football matches , therefore with insufficient sleep , coupled with hours of standing in the cold within a short space of rising from a warm bed , it is not surprising to have a heavy sick list … can not matters be arranged more conveniently for the family man ? |
| 21 | Given the number of curriculum tasks which the school needed to address and the limited resources available to make a response with , the case had to be made not only for a partnership itself , but also for the prioritisation of this task over other needs which had been identified . |
| 22 | It is assumed that the correction factor is independent of speed and therefore it can be evaluated quite simply for the rectangular current waveforms typical of low-speed operation . |
| 23 | I 'm looking very hard for a new amp as a 30th anniversary present to myself and would really like to own a quality ( loud ! ) amp which I can carry in one hand . |
| 24 | Part of your practice material with the TL should be selected not only for the rhythm but also the emotional feeling — the stress and pauses — of the whole utterance . |
| 25 | The temperature could be regulated very exactly for the different needs of caldarium and tepidarium . |
| 26 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 27 | The research aims to develop techniques of obtaining information about the landscape using remote sensing systems and to present and display these data so that they may be used more effectively for the management of landscape resources . |
| 28 | In a later issue the magazine allowed its pages to be used once more for a final farewell to the controversy and an epilogue to it . |
| 29 | Bingham , in charge of his 116th international and scheduled to retire in December , said : ‘ I 'm going all out for a win . |
| 30 | Within the PC environment there are at least four common resolutions plus dozens of hybrids which mean that the fonts have to be set up correctly for the display . |