Example sentences of "[be] [conj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minimum length of courses would be as for existing TEC courses at the equivalent level . |
| 2 | The report accepted that the entry qualifications for the new degree and its standards should be as for other first degrees , but a majority of the group could not accept that it was possible to combine a professional and academic education to honours standard in three years . |
| 3 | To his amazement , the very results that he had been after for several years were achieved . |
| 4 | A further consequence , which has certainly met with some interesting results , is that for certain types of advertising campaign it is possible actively to involve the public . |
| 5 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 6 | The key feature is that for each player , ‘ defecting ’ secures the best outcome regardless of what the other does . |
| 7 | The problem is that for many centuries there were a number of variant systems in which the year of grace began at different times — 1 January , Christmas Day , the Annunciation , Easter Day , and 1 , 24 and 29 September . |
| 8 | Moreover , a point to bear in mind is that for many users of weekly collection credit it is not just one transaction ( with a relatively small money cost , in spite of its high APR ) but is instead virtually continuous indebtedness , with one transaction following closely on the heels of another . |
| 9 | What is certain is that for many competent readers the ‘ voice in the head ’ is there — flickering in and out of consciousness , audible when helpful , silent when not . |
| 10 | Of course , there are unions and parties within Japan which cut across enterprise identification , but the point made by Hirschmeier and Yui is that for many workers , for much of the time , the enterprise is a more strongly pertinent collectivity . |
| 11 | A significant feature is that for many of these companies their overseas activities are more important than their domestic ones . |
| 12 | The second is that for many EFL teachers , the material and tangible aspects of employment are not the only standards they apply . |
| 13 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 14 | No firm decisions have been reached at JAA level on the method of cost recovery , but the principle is that for all JAA activities the ( CAA ) policy is to achieve full cost recovery . |
| 15 | One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari 's mythomania — and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world — the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to . |
| 16 | The simplest scheme of inheritance is that for one pair of genes , controlling one pair of traits ; the traits will then segregate in a 3:1 ratio in the second generation . |
| 17 | The message is that for true change to happen on earth it must happen in the hearts and minds of the population . |
| 18 | The only concession to scale is that for obvious reasons the lift buttons are situated outside the cars ! |
| 19 | This argument is fully summarised by Cooper and Clark ( 1982 ) but , put briefly , it is that for full employment in the future businesses need to invest at a certain rate in new equipment . |
| 20 | The reason is that for several years to be pro-European meant to be pro-Maastricht . |
| 21 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 22 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 23 | As general wisdom , the view in the pensions industry is that for most people with an existing Section 226 policy there would be little point in changing — and for high earners , in particular , it could be positively detrimental . |
| 24 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 25 | What is clear is that for different reasons the Nordic states were disinclined to pursue closer economic integration wholeheartedly , or were at least following their customary practice of slow and cautious deliberation to try to pinpoint and resolve in advance any possible difficulties . |
| 26 | A favoured saying amongst biologists is that for any biological question god has created an ideal organism in which to study it . |
| 27 | ‘ I would remind you , Headmaster , that small as our boarding section is , the Ministry recommendation is that for any establishment of twenty boarders or more , a qualified matron be employed . |
| 28 | The problem , simply stated , is that for any rational expectations model one can always specify a non-rational expectations model which has exactly the same implications for a given set of data , even though it may have other implications which are quite different . |
| 29 | One danger is that for some people everything might happen too quickly at a Loving Relationships Training weekend . |
| 30 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |