Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 2 | Staughton J. thought there was ‘ a good deal to be said for the argument of agency ’ . |
| 3 | There is in theory a good deal to be said for the submission of Professor Birks in his Introduction to the Law of Restitution ( 1985 ) , p. 295 , that a payer should be able to recover payments demanded ultra vires by a public authority on the sole ground that retention of such payment would infringe the principle of ‘ no taxation without Parliament ’ enshrined in the Bill of Rights . |
| 4 | However , there is a good deal to be said for joining a society whose background is strange to you , or with whose aims you are not familiar or not in sympathy . |
| 5 | It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view . |
| 6 | Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets . |
| 7 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 8 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 9 | On the days when he used to leave her a note in the morning she knew well enough that there was no good to be hoped for in replying to it . |
| 10 | All of the single seat 262s will have the option of a ‘ quick change ’ rear fuselage decking , allowing a second seat to be used for pilot conversion . |
| 11 | The head waiter made a servile fuss when they arrived and begged permission for a photograph to be taken for publicity purposes . |
| 12 | With talk of the Iranians having mobilized half a million combat troops , Iraq made arrangements for a formidable assembly of Soviet helicopter gunships and other matériel to be waiting for them . |
| 13 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 14 | Calls for Azam to be tried for war crimes by a special tribunal [ see p. 38967 ] were , however , rejected by the government which said that Azam would be tried under normal law . |
| 15 | 641 was the first new car to be built for Blackpool in thirty years . |
| 16 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 17 | 1825 " The Presses of this meeting , as being part owner of the Steam Boat , declines allowing the assessment for the Steam Boat to be charged for this year . |
| 18 | Your colleague , Mr L K Engels , has written to Simon Murison-Bowie requesting a copy of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic computer tape to be prepared for you on VM/CMS at 1600 bpi . |
| 19 | BellSouth Corp 's BellSouth Telecommunications Inc filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for up to $800m of debt securities , part of a $975m offering to be used for working capital , of which $175m was already registered . |
| 20 | There 's still a one and a half hour gap to be accounted for , and any link between Pinder and Dominic Wetherby would change the emphasis completely . |
| 21 | The analysis presented in this chapter largely takes the former course , for as Wright et al , 1981 say , ‘ If minimising public expenditure is the criterion to be used for choosing patterns of care , the public expenditure basis is the one to go for ’ . |
| 22 | There was a good living to be had for a shrewd man in an institution . |
| 23 | After a pleasant lunch with Mr Blackwood , the managing director of the Cambridge Arts Theatre , I joined the rest of the cast in the Green Room to help write a Derek and Clive type ‘ blue ’ review to be performed for the benefit of our admirable crew after tonight 's show . |
| 24 | The purpose of the meeting is to discuss new change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each . |
| 25 | The purpose of the meeting is to discuss outstanding change requests and reach agreement on the action to be taken for each change request . |
| 26 | The Americans were persuaded to allow the ‘ counterpart funds ’ to Marshall Aid to be used for these purposes , and their backing helped Monnet to protect the investment targets from the deflationary policies of the time . |
| 27 | It was a pleasure to be paid for what I had up until then been doing in my spare time . |
| 28 | Where the evidence is not agreed the court may admit the statement as evidence-in-chief and allow the witness to be tendered for cross-examination . |
| 29 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 30 | IT 'S rotten luck for a prolific writer of talent to be known for only one work , a masterpiece which overshadows any later writing . |