Example sentences of "to be [verb] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students need to be prepared for these careers which involve direct interaction with other EC member states . |
| 2 | Under the old rules England 's revised objective would have been 194 off 41 overs ( 41 × 4.72 ) , requiring a further 132 from 29 overs at 4.55 — not only less than 4.61 but having to be maintained for fewer overs . |
| 3 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 4 | Separate baptisteries continued to be built for many years and separate , free-standing campaniles were the general rule ; these features acted as watch towers and were symbols of local importance . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 7 | The evidence nationally regarding ‘ new long-stay ’ patients was equivocal , with the need for residential provision to be made for such patients being strongly contended outside Worcester . |
| 8 | Needless to say there is a case to be made for both sides in the discussion of small team versus large , and paid versus voluntary . |
| 9 | In such instances allowance has to be made for these features when planning the design , so much so that at Woodchester Orpheus may , for this reason , have been displaced from his usual , central position ( pI . |
| 10 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 11 | The equipment needs to be checked for any signs of wear and tear well in advance , since if anything breaks in a race it is ultimately you who are to blame for not foreseeing it . |
| 12 | It has to be checked for any messages that could 've been left . ’ |
| 13 | This will help them to assess the reasonableness of any subsequent offer ; for example , are the vendors to be rewarded for any synergies or rationalisation benefits resulting from the transaction ? |
| 14 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 15 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 16 | Likewise , there has been a policy for people who are seen as ‘ problem families ’ ( which often includes single-parent families ) and ‘ unsatis-factory ’ tenants to be selected for these estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 18 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 19 | This enables oxygen to be stored for several minutes , and during prolonged periods of submersion an accessor valve between the heart ventricles can be opened to bypass the function of the lungs . |
| 20 | The third note , Treatment of Directors ' Claims as ‘ Employees ’ in Insolvency Administration , explains the criteria that have to be met for such claims to be accepted . |
| 21 | Where a many-to-many relationship is implied hierarchies would need to be created for both directions if the model is to represent the ‘ real world ’ accurately . |
| 22 | One element common to all forms of the offence is that the forbidden conduct must take place when the policeman is acting ‘ in the execution of his duty , ’ which raises the questions ; what duties are imposed upon a policeman , and how do they come to be imposed for these purposes ? |
| 23 | Future social committees will have to give serious thought to the syllabus and the events to be planned for all sections of the community . |
| 24 | Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever . |
| 25 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 26 | There was , however , a price to be paid for such concessions . |
| 27 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 28 | There was a high price to be paid for these amenities and privileges , which was , quite simply , professionalism . |
| 29 | Elementary education was to be provided for all children in England and Wales ; now did the village want a new church school , or would it prefer a board school , one which would be secular and undenominational ? |
| 30 | School meals were to be provided for all children who wanted them ( an obligation on LEAs removed by the 1980 Education Act ) . |