Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A reworking of the basic formula allows a price to be calculated for a desired return . |
| 32 | Instead , he ordered parliament to be summoned for a special session on Nov. 7 at which V. P. Singh would be given the opportunity to prove his government 's viability . |
| 33 | Nonetheless it said that a relatively small licence ( for the code to be implemented for a single architecture , for example ) will still come to a six-figure dollar sum . |
| 34 | Although the corporate form together with limited liability enabled large sums of capital to be aggregated for a common purpose , this was not perceived as problematic . |
| 35 | Bank personal loan Similar to current account loan , but interest rate fixed at start , and even more likely to be earmarked for a particular purchase . |
| 36 | When measuring success and failure , the standard referential communication approach to the problem is to carry out a task analysis to determine which critical features need to be communicated for a successful outcome . |
| 37 | The picture was not seen as ‘ a moment of time ’ but the wings were assumed to be spread for a long period ( Goldsmith , 1984 , pp.2–3 ) . |
| 38 | Many would have to be removed for a successful Woonerf to be created , yet this would not only be expensive in construction or land costs ( or both ) , but may also impinge on other , equally deserving neighbouring areas . |
| 39 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 40 | Owing to the perfect weather the tables were all taken outside and detector users sunbathed on the grass , whilst checking their tokens to see if their number was going to be chosen for a major prize . |
| 41 | The result is that a distribution of relaxation times is to be expected for a given process and this results in a broadening of the dielectric loss peak . |
| 42 | Russia 's President Yeltsin has ordered elections to be held for a new upper house of Parliament . |
| 43 | There was a good living to be had for a shrewd man in an institution . |
| 44 | It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one . |
| 45 | The sale is of goods which , by the very description under which they are sold , appear to be sold for a particular purpose . |
| 46 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 47 | Also , the scale of the problems tends to be smaller ; for example , there are , typically , far fewer anaphors than phonemes in a sentence , and fewer focused candidate referents for a pronoun than ( in a large-vocabulary application ) candidate words to be considered for a given portion of speech . |
| 48 | With the tension reaching boiling point , it was finally announced that the French officials had allowed the result to stand and they had to be applauded for a sporting decision . |
| 49 | The protest campaign was sparked by a council decision earlier this year to fell the trees — 10 beech , one scots pine and one yew — to make way for a road improvement scheme said to be needed for a new supermarket . |
| 50 | His news was too important , too wonderful to be contained for a single instant longer . |
| 51 | Preliminary work had also been done during the war on the ideas for the social security scheme , and plans had begun to be drafted for a national health service . |
| 52 | He was due to be inaugurated for a five-year term on Feb. 7 , 1991 , the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of the Duvalier regime . |
| 53 | This particular police officer does and wants Superintendent Mhoira Robertson to be remembered for a glittering career and not a weary struggle as recorded by Joan Burnie . |
| 54 | Like all of God 's gifts , they are meant to be used for a good purpose and to assist individuals and communities to grow in knowledge and appreciation of the truth , as well as in sensitivity to the dignity and needs of others . |
| 55 | Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’ |
| 56 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces : under the non-exclusive agreement , Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence , agro-chemical and automotive industries ; O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success ; an O2 spokeswoman said Ingenia has great expectations of the potential of O2 to be used for a large number of its applications . |
| 57 | If all three colours are not knitted in every row , the blank rows should be omitted for single bed knitting , but they should be included if the design is to be used for a double bed fabric . |
| 58 | Debtor-creditor-supplier versus debtor-creditor : the first category involves the supplier in the transaction ( for instance , HP , trading checks , credit cards , shop accounts , and even personal loans where the money is to be used for a particular purchase and the supplier of that purchase is involved in the loan agreement ) ; the second does n't involve suppliers of potential or actual purchases in any way ( for instance , bank overdrafts , most personal loans ) . |
| 59 | He says that before he died Mr Summerfield had said he 'd like his money to be used for a charitable trust — the gallery is just what he would have wanted . |
| 60 | The state forces children to be educated for a given period , if necessary against the parents ' wishes or indifference . |