Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.

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1 Panchromatic and false-colour infrared images , registered to the British National Grid , are proving very effective for the interpretation of both regional structures and geomorphology ( see frontispiece ) .
2 First tonight , Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a fifteen year old Bathgate girl .
3 Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of fifteen year old Bathgate girl Lorna Dempsey .
4 POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who has been missing from Gartloch Hospital in Glasgow for six days .
5 He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand .
6 But facing facts as they are now , it is unlikely that you will encounter many offers of wholemeal pasta and rice on the restaurant circuit ; they are considered too chewy for the ‘ average ’ palate and take too long to cook .
7 This dispute has been settled too late for the bill to be included in the parliamentary session that starts in November .
8 Several processes may be considered potentially responsible for the fractionations in U/Pb , Ce/Pb and K/U at the time of lithospheric growth .
9 How can doctors be made more accountable for the resources they use and what kind of incentives are appropriate ?
10 A famous Champagne house sporting blatantly low stocks , or declaring cellars which could easily be judged too small for the firm 's recorded production , would have invited the Nazis to make an intensive search .
11 That an offender can be held criminally liable for the unintended consequences of his or her actions is a well-established legal principle .
12 Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet .
13 Legally , however , it seems that if it can be proved that Mr Fuchs spent above and beyond the municipally approved budget of DFl.12 million without authorisation , then he may be held personally responsible for the losses .
14 Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities .
15 Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities .
16 Culturally , too , conditions in the cities were becoming more propitious for the independence , individualism and involvement in public affairs of which liberals dreamed .
17 Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that .
18 It would be different , of course , if the fire were made too large for the grate .
19 Bombings and shootings had claimed an estimated 37 dead and 324 injured during the previous two weeks , and were thought partly responsible for the low turnout , an estimated 45.85 per cent of the 14,000,000 eligible voters .
20 So you were left quite unprepared for the lightning 10K race start , made worse this time around by a shouted count-down .
21 These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century .
22 He now stands accused by The Hague city council of serious mismanagement of the Gemeentemuseum 's financial affairs , resulting in a deficit of DFl.4.2 million ( £1.6 million ; $2.3 million ) , a charge which may result in his being held personally responsible for the debts .
23 Where the risk is considered too serious for the children to remain in their family , they have a duty to provide alternative care , in foster homes or other forms of residential care ( and there is a duty to monitor children 's safety and well-being in these situations also ) .
24 Finding different ways to describe a miserable unchanging pattern is becoming as difficult for the car market as it is for the weather men .
25 CO ON sock and frilly knicker specialist Sherwood Group ( steady at 760p and now capitalised at £140m ) is looking too big for the unlisted securities market and a move up to the main market may well accompany Tuesday 's year-end profits .
26 The first is to make sure that everyone who gets involved in the taking of someone else 's vehicle is made criminally liable for the consequences .
27 Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’
28 It 's came in handy for the shopping that now anyway has n't ?
29 The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme .
30 Moreover , the fragmentation that group participation creates in the policy process has been held partly responsible for the ‘ challenge to governance ’ faced by most Western nations since the 1970s .
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