Example sentences of "[is] [verb] for [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be immensely useful — and that is what is looked for with lateral thinking — or it can be false . |
| 2 | The transparent ‘ honesty ’ with which he will say good and bad about the people he 's worked with and around has always to be taken as having a ‘ point of view ’ ; that ‘ point of view ’ is governed by what Niki is looking for at any particular moment . |
| 3 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 4 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 5 | In effect Lévi-Strauss is making structuralism do more work than it is equipped for without considerable development . |
| 6 | The to infinitive is called for with such verbs , so it is not surprising that perceptual verbs should take to before the infinitive when used in the more conceptual inferential sense . |
| 7 | Simple reaction time refers to a response , such as a key press , indicating merely that the stimulus has been detected , whereas discriminative reaction time refers to a response where some kind of discrimination is called for between two stimuli presented either simultaneously or successively . |
| 8 | The first point to be made is that to is not , strictly speaking , part of the infinitive : the latter is a verb , whereas to is a dematerialized preposition whose use is called for in certain contexts because of the meaning it expresses . |
| 9 | Sparc Technology currently employs 30 to 40 people and is aiming for between 50 and 60 by the end of the year . |
| 10 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 11 | It is a document which sets out the terms of a loan and is usually issued under authority of a company 's seal , Repayment is provided for at some future date . |
| 12 | From the point of view of both the buyer and the seller , it makes more sense for risk to pass on delivery than upon the passing of property , and this is provided for in cl 4.3 of Precedent 1 and clause 4.1 of Precedent 2 . |
| 13 | The first commercial oil was discovered at the McKee onshore field in 1980 and production of some 5000 barrels per day is hoped for in 1985 . |
| 14 | ‘ No expenditure of any kind is allowed for beyond that which is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency ’ . |
| 15 | This is allowed for in each instrument and in addition , measurements can be made over a range of temperatures ( 278 to 373 K ) . |
| 16 | Because the B one use that 's that is planned for within that allocation is a type of B one which is likely to locate on an industrial estate er to use the the term . |
| 17 | Capriati is one of a select band of prospects whose coaching is paid for by American tennis officials but whereas they felt the amount being offered was generous , Mr Capriati felt that Jennifer needed a consistency of guidance and coaching on an even more regular basis . |
| 18 | which is paid for by Royal Quays |
| 19 | This stage of training is catered for by inter-club competitions . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |
| 21 | All of the post-war increase in employment is accounted for by part-time jobs . |
| 22 | In Cantal , 51% of farms were owner/occupied and 49% tenanted in 1979/80 ( the difference is accounted for by common grazing ) , figures fairly typical of the Auvergne generally . |
| 23 | Measured by turnover , almost half the business activity of Scotland 's top 200 companies is accounted for by 22 companies in the financial sector . |
| 24 | Thromboxane A 2 is a powerful vasoactive compound , and the activity of the rabbit aorta-contracting substance released from sensitized guinea-pig lungs described by Piper and Vane ( 1969 ) is accounted for by this substance ( Hamberg et al , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Reagan 's strong showing against Ford is accounted for by several factors ; the continued reaction to Watergate compounded by the pardon of Nixon ; campaign finance reforms that had improved the chances of outsider candidates ; new apportionment rules in the Republican convention that strengthened the Sunbelt states of the South , the Southwest and the West and , finally , the increase in the number of primary elections . |
| 26 | Over , of which , half , over half is accounted for by intra-EC transactions , under the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 27 | Their scale is demonstrated by the fact that just over 25 per cent of all public sector spending in Britain is accounted for by local authorities . |