Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 With the onset of Big Bang , deregulation , and the formation of financial conglomerates , the problems posed by conflicts of interest have become accentuated : there is now an increased opportunity for information located within one ‘ arm ’ of a conglomerate to be misused either for the direct benefit of the conglomerate or for favoured customers .
2 Besides the semi-literate glossies , and the best-selling ‘ page-turners ’ that have to be moved aside for the next over-hyped wave , books appear for sale that are of a quite different kind .
3 Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest .
4 ‘ Be prepared to be lost here for the rest of your life . ’
5 Obviously , I understand that this course is to be built mainly for the benefit of the people who 'll buy the new houses , but it seems a pity that natural unspoilt countryside should be bulldozed to make way for what 's really just a few rich people 's pastime . ’
6 You seem to be looking outside for a solution .
7 Advise the participating member whether work is to be conducted on a sub-contract basis reporting directly to you or to be conducted directly for the client .
8 The Assembly of the Republic ( the legislature ) , formerly the People 's Assembly , was to be elected similarly for a five-year term , and consists of a minimum of 200 and a maximum of 250 deputies .
9 The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game .
10 For example a bilingual fieldworker acceptable to an Asian community in Britain would probably need to be selected carefully for a range of characteristics such as religion , geographical provenance , or political affiliation , all of which are associated with a distinctive ethnicity .
11 Where a writ of summons or an equivalent document had to be transmitted abroad for the purpose of service , under the provisions of the present Convention , and the defendant has not appeared , judgment shall not be given until it is established that —
12 When a writ of summons or an equivalent document had to be transmitted abroad for the purpose of service , under the provisions of the present Convention , and a judgment has been entered against a defendant who has not appeared , the judge shall have the power to relieve the defendant from the effects of the expiration of the time for appeal from the judgment if the following conditions are fulfilled —
13 In November 1872 , the Board received an application from Cambridge Medical School for the bodies of paupers who had died in the workhouse , and were without funds or relations , to be sent there for the study of anatomy .
14 However , it has the disadvantage that it is not general , but has to be calculated separately for every n and N.
15 Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default .
16 After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work .
17 She goes to boarding school in Sanderstown , but , ’ with a smile , ‘ always seems to be coming home for the holidays .
18 Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ .
19 She walked round the house , planning what she would take : this ornament to be packed in a shoe-box stuffed with wood-shavings and placed in the top drawer of that chest , that cane-chair to be left behind for the benefit of the Colonel 's successor , those curtains to be carefully arranged when the time came , with not more than one fold .
20 Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game .
21 I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together .
22 If barristers were to be instructed to prepare written briefs , they would need to be remunerated fairly for the work and there would be a resulting rise in costs ( Evershed , 1953 ) .
23 Does the release need to be angled differently for the different sections of the list ?
24 Although the haze had restricted visibility forward Spencer recalls that he could see down quite well and everything seemed to be going smoothly for a controlled emergency landing .
25 In recent years there has been a strong demand for the Galloway from Germany , especially for low-cost meat production on upland heaths and lowland swamps where the typical German dual-purpose breeds need to be brought inside for the winter and need better grazing .
26 What a goose she was , she the loved and wanted one , to be afflicted even for a moment by any threat or doubt .
27 In return the king was granted the tax he sought , a ninth , which was to be used exclusively for the war .
28 The freeholder demanded a clause in the lease precluding unnecessary noise , to which the company replied that there should be no noise , as the depôt was to be used only for the storage of tramcars .
29 In general , however , the Single Market seems to be designed more for the producer .
30 It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice .
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