Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POLICEMAN who walked into a hen party in a pub had to fight to keep his clothes on after being mistaken for a stripper . |
| 2 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 3 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 4 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 5 | A number were unfortunate enough to be mistaken for spies after ‘ failing to heed warning challenges ’ , and got shot at , although there was only one reported death : a James Waddell of Grangemouth , near Edinburgh , was shot through the hand and heart as he was examining flood damage in the course of his employment duties . |
| 6 | I should just add that I was lucky enough to be selected for the only European Commission sponsored place at the EEB conference . |
| 7 | He was good enough to be invited for trials by Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 8 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 9 | Unlike IBM 's SAA , he says , DCM is open and flexible enough to be customised for each particular site ; it allows for customers wanting to integrate other vendors ' hardware , which Bull will try to supply if necessary . |
| 10 | If the Other Side knows enough to be looking for Blagg , it could know enough to destroy or neutralise the information , whatever it may be , in his possession . ’ |
| 11 | They were computerized , all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell . |
| 12 | ‘ There is , ’ Franklin assured him , ‘ honor enough to be got for both of you . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , according to the results for Birmingham , about 2% of people have an aneurysm large enough to be considered for surgery . |
| 14 | As Davy wrote later , John Buddle , the mine inspector , convinced him that , ‘ as far as ventilation was concerned , the resources of modern science had been fully employed ; and that a mode of preventing accidents was only to be sought for in a method of lighting the mines free from danger . ’ |
| 15 | For these features have only to be noticed for it to be seen that very considerable scope exists for denying or undermining the exercise of the right . |
| 16 | Increasingly , I was baffled by what was going on , and kept silent , only to be rebuked for not trying or for adopting a disdainful attitude . |
| 17 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 18 | Yet , at the same time , the process of obtaining material through interlending schemes is expensive and time-consuming , and only to be undertaken for groups of material which are infrequently needed by the library 's clientele , or which — because they are out-of-print — can not be purchased for library stock . |
| 19 | The bed was very large , which was only to be expected for someone of Dr Vaughan 's heroic proportions . |
| 20 | In my judgment , the question has only to be put for the answer to be apparent . |
| 21 | On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars . |
| 22 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 23 | It is generally felt that the tines are too close together to be used for carding wool , although some simpler combs which may be wool-combs are known . |
| 24 | Now the furious businessman is to take his pork pies elsewhere after being chided for over-familiarity . |
| 25 | Robert Garcia , a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for New York , resigned his seat on Jan. 7 shortly before being sentenced for his role in the Wedtech corruption case . |
| 26 | The Mutawas informed the physician that the new mother would be removed that day and taken away to be stoned for her crime against God . |
| 27 | The disappointment of losing by a stroke in the centenary Open was soon to be forgotten for Tip and Arnold Palmer , with victory at Royal Birkdale just one year later in 1961 . |
| 28 | All of which suggests that they could have as many as five players in the L.G.U. squad shortly to be nominated for next year 's Curtis Cup . |
| 29 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 30 | Capitalism is thus to be opposed for its exploitative practices , rather than its non-utopian form . |