Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that Batch 3 courses are still to start — candidates will first enrol for them in the summer of 1992 — it looks as if the number of candidates involved in advanced courses in any one year is going to exceed 30,000 when the steady stage is eventually reached for the new system — and that the number of Higher National Unit enrolments per year will approach 200,000 . |
| 2 | Elsecar is a mining village south of Barnsley , and has some interesting buildings of the nineteenth century around the former iron works , but it is especially noted for the unique pumping engine preserved by the National Coal Board . |
| 3 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 4 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 5 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 6 | An account of the study and its main findings is separately written for a termly evaluation newsletter which is distributed to all staff . |
| 7 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 8 | ‘ I swear , ’ Corbett said emphatically , ‘ that my intention is not to spy for the English King . |
| 9 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 10 | But man is not made for a solitary , self-sufficient existence . |
| 11 | This community has obvious affinities to the scrub vegetation of small islands and ravines described above , but is not recorded for the Outer Hebrides in the NVC . |
| 12 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 13 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 14 | This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran . |
| 15 | The squabbling is not fitting for the so-called ambassador for Liverpool . |
| 16 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 17 | The weather forecast is good and rain is not expected for the next few days . |
| 18 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 19 | This standard Planner is designed to give a general purpose catchment for each centre and is not designed for a specific retail sector . |
| 20 | To be sure , ‘ Wisden ’ is not to blame for the absurd quarrel over the number of centuries — 99 or 100 by the end of the England tour of India ? — scored by England 's present captain , Graham Gooch . |
| 21 | At the same time , the mind must be in readiness for new ways of seeing so that it is already poised for the marvellous and even the illogical . |
| 22 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 23 | The former enshrines the major cavity properties : E1 is the incident field amplitude ( normally zero in a laser ) ; t is the time for light to propagate from the cell output around to the input , equal to ( " : - — L ) /c ; 8 is the cavity mistuning , whose physical significance is best examined for the empty cavity , in steady state , whence and thus The cavity field thus has resonances spaced at intervals of in 8 , which are very sharp if R is close to unity ( high-finesse resonator ) . |
| 24 | He knew this would be ‘ a great mortification ’ to Scott , but ‘ the personal feeling of an architect ought not to enter into competition with what is best adapted for the public service and what is most compatible with the ornament of the town ’ . |
| 25 | Six is best remembered for the self-registering thermometer which he invented , the first to record maximum and minimum temperatures on a single instrument . |
| 26 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 27 | It is usually calculated for the typical average person of the group at risk . |
| 28 | The term ‘ New Criticism ’ is usually used for the literary theory and criticism that began with the work of I.A. Richards and T.S . |
| 29 | Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term . |
| 30 | Under the 1980 Constitution executive power is vested in the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term . |