Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure you are not to blame for the iniquitous nature of this wretched will . ’ |
| 2 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 3 | Cheltenham on Gold Cup day glitters … the best in the land are there to race for the richest prize … we 've three questions to ask you in our competition … first is about jockeys … |
| 4 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 5 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 6 | ‘ I swear , ’ Corbett said emphatically , ‘ that my intention is not to spy for the English King . |
| 7 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 8 | To be sure , ‘ Wisden ’ is not to blame for the absurd quarrel over the number of centuries — 99 or 100 by the end of the England tour of India ? — scored by England 's present captain , Graham Gooch . |
| 9 | Gary is now leading the series with three rounds to go … this week he 's off to race for the European Championship in Holland … |
| 10 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 11 | Gordon Chapman is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 12 | Gordon Chapman is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 13 | Karen Fraser is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 14 | Karen Fraser is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 15 | Gordon Chapman 's here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 16 | Kingsley says he 's not sure whether the hunger is there to win for the second year . |
| 17 | From Hume 's standpoint , it is of course precisely this tendency to mistake succession for identity that is chiefly to blame for the metaphysical doctrine of substance as an enduring and unanalysable substratum behind the observable changes . |
| 18 | THE search is about to start for a new Ulster Branch secretary . |
| 19 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 20 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 21 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 22 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 23 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 24 | The 13-year-old singer was about to audition for the joint BBC-RTE television talent show Go For It when his larynx let him down . |
| 25 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |