Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] for the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Many of the drivers are Brunel enthusiasts , but others are going along just for the ride . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The temperature could be regulated very exactly for the different needs of caldarium and tepidarium . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A special period should be set aside solely for the purpose of carrying out an inspection . |
| 22 | Equally , money has to be found not only for the payment of church musicians , but also for the composers and publishers upon whom church musicians depend . |
| 23 | That is to say , the existence of home ground may be assumed not only for the grassroots component of a society , but for all its members . |
| 24 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 25 | Others relate to its receipt of government and local authority funds , which are granted in the expectation that the WEA is providing a public educational service in the liberal studies : that courses will be run not merely for the benefit of existing members but will be widely canvassed and advertised to attract as many of the adult population as wish to take part . |
| 26 | Even over Christmas , when the IRA declared a unilateral ceasefire , that caution could not be relaxed not even for the sake of a rare party and a couple of cans of beer . |
| 27 | The initial rate of expansion also would have had to be chosen very precisely for the rate of expansion still to be so close to the critical rate needed to avoid recollapse . |
| 28 | The idea of distinctive features was put forward in the early 1930s by Bloomfield ( 1933 ) and Trubetzkoy ( various publications leading up to 1939 ) ; however , in early work and in present-day functional phonology , the features are worked out individually for the language being studied . |
| 29 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 30 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |