Example sentences of "to be [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A correction factor consequently needed to be applied to account for the ‘ missing ’ output — relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 2 | Once this is decided , off-duty may need to be adjusted to allow for the teaching commitment . |
| 3 | These would have to be raised to pay for the damage they caused in acid rain and global warming . |
| 4 | Nick Thomas admits he is no oil painting , so he was surprised to be asked to pose for a portrait . |
| 5 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 6 | Even if the original tenant is forced to join a guarantor , it may be advisable for the guarantor 's covenant to be amended to provide for the guarantor 's liability to cease on an assignment by the tenant . |
| 7 | Because the N-linked oligosaccharides synthesised in the presence of DNJ contain maximally four sugar residues more than those synthesised in the presence of DMJ , most of the 13 potential N-glycosylation sites on the Β 1 protein have to be glycosylated to account for the difference in molecular weight between the β 1 chains in DMJ and DNJ treated cells . |
| 8 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 9 | He was widely believed to be preparing to run for the post of President of the Republic , a post which would entail his departure from the trade union leadership . |
| 10 | And it is a terrible thing , ’ said Grainne , ‘ to be forced to toil for a necromancer . ’ |
| 11 | As Lavandera ( 1978b ) has remarked , one paradoxical consequence of the ‘ sea-change ’ in the concept of the sociolinguistic variable evident in the Weiner and Labov paper is that the authors seem to be attempting to argue for a function of variation almost converse to that which emerged from Labov 's earlier work . |
| 12 | The calculation has therefore to be discounted to allow for the various imponderants . |
| 13 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
| 14 | ‘ Am I to be allowed to phone for a cab from your apartment ? ’ |
| 15 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |