Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 2 | Besides those grants taken out of context or distorted , the endowment was blamed for many things it had nothing to do with . |
| 3 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 4 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 5 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 6 | ‘ Prince Edward is destined for greater things , ’ Joan said with a tactlessness rare in her and which she was to regret . |
| 7 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 8 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 9 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 10 | This is an author who is destined for great things . |
| 11 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 12 | You 're destined for big things obviously . |
| 13 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 14 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 15 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 16 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 17 | I suspect what the conclusion wants to imply is that there is something in the philosophy of science which says that science should be used for good things and that war is not one of these . |
| 18 | These can be on the scale of several tens of kilotonnes — for example , the C4 and C5 steams which can be used for such things as petrol additives . |
| 19 | ‘ Even a mature product such as ‘ Diakon ’ offers scope for exciting new developments to extend its range of applications , ’ he says , ‘ We have recently introduced impact modified grades with improved toughness and craze resistance , which are being used for such things as food mixer bowls , blood filters and tooth-brush handles , and a research programme we are engaged in has produced acrylics with very much higher softening points — likely candidates for automotive head lamp lenses and other lighting applications . ’ |
| 20 | Because production speed is important but flexibility more so ( the system has to be used for other things as well ) we adopted Aldus PageMaker as our standard layout package , we run it on both Macintosh and PC systems , and Word Perfect as our word processor . |
| 21 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
| 22 | Once trained , they could be used for other things too . |
| 23 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 24 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 25 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 26 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
| 27 | He then measured the corridor outside my office for an emergency theatre for drama and films , should the recreation room be needed for other things . |
| 28 | His politics are not of the kind which nurture nastiness ; he was fashioned for finer things . |
| 29 | ‘ Captain Carter , Reichsführer Himmler is noted for many things , but charity and compassion are not among them . ’ |
| 30 | Despite this wide canon , she remains best known for one thing — vampires . |