Example sentences of "be [adj] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can report on this to the next meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July . |
| 2 | I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can present it to the Parish Council at their next meeting on 27th August . |
| 3 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 4 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 5 | ‘ I should be grateful for the Financial Secretary 's guidance on these two points . |
| 6 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 7 | All I reckon we can do is be grateful for the good service , as you say Tim , and get on with what 's left — and that is quite a lot . |
| 8 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 9 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 10 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 11 | Surely it can not be right for a foreign company , faced with recession and a lack of profitability at home , in Sweden , to cut its overseas operations and , in doing so , close down the United Kingdom 's strategic bus manufacturing plant . |
| 12 | Years of experience tell us that standard beds may not be right for every human body . |
| 13 | On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes . |
| 14 | What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , well , could n't help but be sorry for the old fellow . |
| 16 | It may be that for the public gallery , media ‘ reality ’ is political reality . |
| 17 | It would certainly be possible for a cooling-off period to be introduced in Britain . |
| 18 | After the 1906 printing the plates were inked up and varnished over but not cancelled in any way : theoretically , therefore , it would be possible for a new purchaser to print from them . |
| 19 | It would therefore be possible for a young school-leaver to begin acquiring qualifications that could lead in the end to gaining a technical degree qualification . |
| 20 | It would of course be possible for a British Telecom engineer to disclose such information to the targets of the tapping . |
| 21 | These are only two examples of cases where it should be possible for a non-trading corporation , which asserts that its reputation is capable of being damaged by the defamatory statement , to sue for libel . |
| 22 | Its use is most appropriate for " open-ended " problems where an infinity of solutions may be possible for a given set of design parameters . |
| 23 | For the examples to work , it must be possible for a false belief still to be justified ; and a justified belief must justify any belief which it implies ( or is justifiably believed to imply ) . |
| 24 | David Stirling felt that this was a waste of time and resources and that it should be possible for a large group to maintain itself in the desert for a period of several weeks . |
| 25 | These claims should be investigated very closely as it may be possible for a local glazing firm to carry out a satisfactory replacement of the glass or glazing unit without replacing the window frame or door . |
| 26 | As dependent individuals are not vociferous consumers , ordinary market forces can not operate in the same way as might be possible for the acute sector . |
| 27 | It should always be possible for the salaried partner to rely on the nature of his subordinate position to claim to be entitled ( at any rate by necessary implication ) to an indemnity from the full partners in respect of any additional liabilities to which his being held out has exposed him : but as a matter of good practice , every would-be salaried partner should insist on written terms which clarify his standing in the firm and effectually indemnify him against extraordinary expenses and liabilities . |
| 28 | Would it be possible for the Civil Service college to illustrate , by means of that example , what should not happen , and to demonstrate the amount of abuse that took place at that point in our history ? |
| 29 | Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ? |
| 30 | Of course , any non divergent behaviour possible for a syntactic approximation will also be possible for the original process . |