Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be used for simple emphasis , as in ( 5 ) ( c ) , or to highlight some property , implied by the noun but still in some way surprising as in ( 5 ) ( a ) , or for the sake of a contrast , as in ( 5 ) ( b ) . |
| 2 | Likewise , children with ‘ acquired childhood language disorder ’ may be recognised as having similar kinds of communication difficulties ( irrespective of specific causes ) and , on the basis of this diagnosis , they may be recommended for certain kinds of therapy ( Cantwell and Baker 1987 ) . |
| 3 | As regards attitudes , there is the assumption that attitudinal positions , and thereby attitudinal structures , can not be fully developed , for , although they might be developed for given argumentative contexts , they must also look forward to contexts as yet unrealized . |
| 4 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 5 | Once trained , they could be used for other things too . |
| 6 | Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing . |
| 7 | Senior Soviet officials stressed that the patrols were an emergency measure decided in the face of the soaring crime rate , and denied that they would be used for political ends or would violate human rights . |
| 8 | The railcoaches being the largest single class of trams , it was inevitable that they would be chosen for post-war rebuilding to suit changed circumstances . |
| 9 | They will be used for Coastal Containers Line 's daily Irish Sea services . |
| 10 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 11 | Both of these involve culturing some cells from the baby so they can be tested for genetic abnormalities . |
| 12 | They can be used for mixed media work as well with Faber-Castell 's Polychromos Colour pencils and Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils , since the colours are carefully co-ordinated across each of these product ranges . |
| 13 | As well as helping us transmute negative emotions such as anger , fear and hate into optimism and joy , they can be used for psychic protection — and the effect can be immediate . |
| 14 | The next job is to reconfigure the mexeflote rafts so that they can be used for other tasks . |
| 15 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |