Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction . |
| 2 | New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial . |
| 3 | Shots of the product in use or in an unusual setting are the type to aim for in this area . |
| 4 | In part , as Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) suggest , these problems are the price paid for departmental acceptance of the FMI . |
| 5 | Are the Government prepared for the industrial coal market to disappear , something that is implicit in the Rothschild report ? |
| 6 | As covered in previous articles , the six colour types which are the minimum required for a full repertoire are : |
| 7 | The two quantities are the time taken for the waves to reach a patch and return to the Earth , which gives the range of the patches , and the Doppler-shift of such waves , which gives the motion of the patches . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's one thing being in favour of a third umpire , as I am , but a little bit different when you are the batsman waiting for a verdict ! ’ |
| 9 | LANGUAGE-IS the language used for the source code |
| 10 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 11 | They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all . |
| 12 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |
| 13 | That there had been no time to prepare for a gradual hand-over of power , to make plans for social , political , economic and military integration , only made things worse . |
| 14 | All looked in order , but there had been no laundry done for him lately . |
| 15 | Further , there has not been a date allocated for the future although its replacement is expected to run in April . |
| 16 | She had thought he might have called , but there had n't even been a message left for her . |
| 17 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |
| 18 | The point to bear in mind is that all that glisters is not gold , and there has been a price to pay for all the splendour . |
| 19 | There had always been a trap waiting for him somewhere along the way when Isambard loosed the reins a little , and it would be the same now . |
| 20 | This could have been a vengeance slaying for the killing of Peada forty years before , allegedly by the treachery of his wife , Ealhflaed , the sister of Osthryth ( HE 111 , 21 , 24 ) , but no further details are known . |
| 21 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 22 | ‘ For the moment at least they are a solution looking for a problem . |
| 23 | CRUSADE AGAINST THE CORONARY There are no miracle cures for heart disease — but some of the risks are avoidable |
| 24 | In my opinion , these charges are an attempt to retaliate for Mr Macchio having filed his own action to terminate their professional relationship . ’ |
| 25 | If you do not have a heated bathroom then invest in a high wall-mounted heater , which has to be the type approved for bathroom use , and should be connected through the wall to a power source outside the room . |
| 26 | Clear examples of it would be the cat leaping for its ball , or a lion in pursuit of a zebra . |
| 27 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 28 | There would appear to be the need to develop for these and possibly many other applications , heat sensors sufficiently resistant to fire and high temperatures to act not only as actuating mechanisms for automatic systems but also to provide continuous readings of temperature in their permanent locations . |
| 29 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 30 | but I 'm a bit pushed for time |