Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 2 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 3 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 4 | These are intended chiefly for the research worker , but undergraduates will find the periodicals referring to their particular interest of increasing value as the course progresses . |
| 5 | ‘ We are trapped together for the day . ’ |
| 6 | Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors . |
| 7 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 8 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 9 | Sections 1 and 2 are targeted specifically for the LIFESPAN manager , with section 3 intended for LIFESPAN users who wish to access the transferred data . |
| 10 | Herbal remedies are usually dispensed as tinctures , either singly or in various combinations which are prepared specifically for the patient on the basis of their complaints . |
| 11 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 12 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 13 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
| 14 | They are not corridors , as , of course , the exigencies of local traffic scarcely render that sort of coach desirable , but are built specially for the service between Watford and Euston , and Watford and Broad Street . |
| 15 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |
| 16 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 17 | Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions . |
| 18 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 19 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 20 | Traditional Campa agriculture is based on garden or chacra plots which are used mainly for the cultivation of manioc , although plantains , bananas , sweet potatoes and beans are also grown on a smaller scale . |
| 21 | Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships . |
| 22 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
| 23 | ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future . |
| 24 | Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) . |
| 25 | These have been mentioned in passing in the previous section , but they are summarised here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis . |
| 26 | It has the merit of simplicity and responds adequately to the desire of States to maintain control over purely domestic transactions , in that the laws of a State are enacted primarily for the benefit of its own residents , not for those situated abroad . |
| 27 | It should be noted that the stages are defined purely for the purposes of this review and do not feature in the National Certificate Catalogue . |
| 28 | A rattlesnake 's fangs are neatly folded away when not in use but are swung forward for the strike . |
| 29 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 30 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |