Example sentences of "be [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1973 the Scottish Education Department , on behalf of the four Central ( Art ) Institutions , formally approached the CNAA with a proposal for their Associateship and Diploma courses to be recognized for a classified degree in art and design . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 3 | Asif and Trevor Penney , the newly-qualified Zimbabwean , will be competing for a middle-order place , though the first chance is likely to go to Paul Smith if he has shaken off last year 's injury troubles . |
| 4 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 5 | Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions . |
| 6 | Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices . |
| 7 | What was previously assumed to be given for a single capital now needs to be explained . |
| 8 | The Prism encoder enables its output to be optimised for a particular target decoder design to maximise image quality at the lowest possible bit rate so that a video-on-demand service provider can minimise central disk storage and maximise use of the available system bandwidth . |
| 9 | A reworking of the basic formula allows a price to be calculated for a desired return . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ The letter is a forgery but we will not be pressing for a criminal inquiry . |
| 14 | Insurance premiums will eventually be dropped for a low-risk company , but the benefits are even greater , and more rapidly felt , for companies opting for self-insurance . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , what are the problems that need to be solved for a European currency union to be created ? |
| 16 | His news was too important , too wonderful to be contained for a single instant longer . |
| 17 | The pedagogical grammar must not only be designed for a specific audience ; it must also teach materials that are culturally appropriate . |
| 18 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's DPN-100 broadband data network system is to be installed for a new system created by Telefonica de Espana SA called the Advanced Business Services Network , in an order worth $23m . |
| 19 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 20 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 21 | However , as shown in Fig. 5 , there is an apparent inhibition of transcription following UV irradiation ( Fig. 5 ; P-P ( u ) and B-P ( u ) ) , as would be expected for a trypanosome gene transcribed by a distant promoter . |
| 22 | Four months ' observations of QB 1 reveal an orbit that would be expected for a Kuiper-belt object , although there is still considerable uncertainty in the eccentricity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | IT MAY be the same place , the same time and the same round but Steve Davis will be praying for a different result when he meets Ken Doherty in the £180,000 Benson and Hedges Irish Masters today . |
| 25 | Soldiers in the Cheshire regiment now bravely trying to keep the peace among the warring factions are among those who will be praying for a fresh initiative . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The same could be claimed for a new memorial at Smoogro , Orkney , in honour of Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning , DSC . |
| 28 | The state forces children to be educated for a given period , if necessary against the parents ' wishes or indifference . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I guess these folk must be dying for a cool drink and some cookies , right ? ’ |