Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may come a point when the rights and needs of other people have to be taken into account in the planning which is done for old people and it is morally unacceptable to take a stance which disregards others ' interests . |
| 2 | He is to receive the Daily Star 's Gold Award which is given for outstanding bravery . |
| 3 | There must therefore be another process at work affecting performance , a process which is engaged for certain tasks but not for others . |
| 4 | For this reason the reader should resist the temptation to follow the figures given in the examples through to the source and application of funds statement in Fig. 2.3 , which is presented for illustrative purposes only . |
| 5 | The Power Challenge series uses the high-end TFP variant of Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 RISC — MIPS began development of the part in conjunction with Silicon Graphics before it was acquired by the latter — which is optimised for floating point performance . |
| 6 | Both statistics are equally powerful in large samples but by and large you will always be using a small sample , so use the test statistic which is designed for small sample work , that 's the F statistic . |
| 7 | The modules are structured into five levels , from Module 1 which is designed for complete beginners through to Module 5 , in which students attain a level of competence some way above that required for a pass at SEB Higher Grade . |
| 8 | The Charities Act 1960 , section 45 , says ‘ charity ’ means any institution , corporate or not , which is established for charitable purposes ' , a somewhat tautologous and unhelpful non-definition . |
| 9 | More recently , ‘ Synprolam , ’ which is used for cationic surfactants , was developed using feedstocks both from the carbonylation and amines plants to make long-chain fatty amines , which can then be reacted with ethylene oxide in the final manufacturing stage . |
| 10 | A " private " motor vehicle is one which is used for personal or domestic purposes : not for business purposes ( Bell v Franks ( Alfred ) & Bartlett Co Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 356 ) . |
| 11 | This objection can only be evaded by finding a different account of the justification of false beliefs from that which is offered for true ones . |
| 12 | I have just described the level of the science budget in my Department , which is spent for civil research purposes on environmental , medical , scientific , engineering , economic and social research . |
| 13 | Analysis in cell lines and transgenic mice using a combination of these sites has revealed the presence of a conserved element(s) between -300bp and -190bp which is required for neuronal-specific expression . |
| 14 | Examples of confusion in defining and acquiring exactly the type of management information which is needed for specific tasks and policies emerged from a widely publicized aspect of management in further education in the 1980s . |
| 15 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 16 | Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results . |
| 17 | This is an author who is destined for great things . |
| 18 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 19 | Cloke ( 1977b , p. 19 ) provides probably the most useful definition : ‘ the key settlement itself is planned for comprehensive growth in terms of housing , services and often employment … ’ , while ‘ the key settlement policy incorporated an overview of the settlement pattern as a whole and lays special emphasis on the relationship between the key settlement and other settlements served by it … ’ . |
| 20 | Many of our featured Caribbean hotels are all-inclusive properties — everything is paid for prior to departure . |
| 21 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 22 | Information , whether it is prepared for external or internal purposes , should be objective . |
| 23 | It is intended for long-term unemployed adults ( and other adults with particular difficulties in finding work , such as disabilities ) and aims to help them acquire skills and return to employment . |
| 24 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 25 | It is scheduled for full implementation during 1983 . |
| 26 | ‘ It is catering for well-heeled youth , ’ he maintains , ‘ and is well run without too much interference . ’ |
| 27 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 28 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 29 | Too often it is exported for foreign exchange while poor people without the money to buy it or the land to grow it go hungry : South Asia still contains the majority of the world 's ‘ absolute poor ’ . |
| 30 | The double-flowered form is the one generally cultivated because it is preferred for medical use , and is grown from division of runners , taken and planted in early spring ; seedlings produce a large number of single-flowered forms . |