Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 2 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 4 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 5 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 6 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 7 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 8 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 9 | These are designed particularly for the young and contain a strong spiritual element in them . |
| 10 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 11 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 12 | The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each . |
| 13 | An exciting and varied programme of forty-two special-interest holidays both overseas and within Britain has been designed exclusively for the National Trust . |
| 14 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 15 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 16 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 17 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 18 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 19 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 20 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 21 | The effect of suppression , wherever it occurs , is that stimuli presented to the left ear are destined predominantly for the right hemisphere and stimuli heard at the right ear arrive mainly in the left hemisphere . |
| 22 | Pooled results are presented separately for the 17 and 21 item version of the scale and then all 20 trials were combined by using the standardised difference between mean Hamilton scores for the serotonin reuptake inhibitor and tricyclic and related antidepressant groups : Standardised difference=difference between means/standard deviation . |
| 23 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 24 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 25 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 26 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 27 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 28 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 30 | Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ? |