Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 2 | In Niemeyers , for example , the company language is English which is used for 70% of all non-Dutch communication ( with French and German each approximately 15% to make up the rest ) . |
| 3 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 4 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 5 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 6 | Parallel projects to this one are planned for several other European countries . |
| 7 | This one 's going for a walk |
| 8 | ‘ This one 's waiting for a guy to come back from some big-shit business deal . |
| 9 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 10 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 11 | ‘ This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’ |
| 12 | This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine . |
| 13 | Therefore no more is needed for an event to be an effect , at least in so far as relations of conditionality are concerned , than that the event was such that another one was required for it . |
| 14 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |
| 15 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 16 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 17 | Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million , with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 18 | Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Part of the trouble was that the information which colleges needed for their own purpose was on a scale different from that which was called for by local authorities and by the DES . |
| 21 | Further deletions which leave less than 90bp of the promoter result in a very low level of expression , suggesting the presence of a basic promoter element between -90 and -70 which is required for expression in this heterologous cell type . |
| 22 | The staff drifted in slowly , and finally at around ten-thirty everyone was accounted for . |
| 23 | Can you possibly remember how much you were paid for your apprenticeship with Amos ? |
| 24 | They do n't work out how much they 're paying for their money |
| 25 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 26 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 27 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 28 | After being arrested by the Securitate , Lupescu is dragged in chains before Ceauşescu , who demands to know how much he is paid for his jokes . |
| 29 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 30 | so it was , even then , it was summer after that she was trying for Em , it was two years after . |