Example sentences of "[is] [verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 2 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 3 | Early post-implantation mouse embryos will develop in static culture if explanted at the primitive streak stages but normal development is sustained for only 24 h or less ( 22 ) . |
| 4 | A distinction can be made between short-term potentiation ( STP ) , which decays within 1h , and long-term potentiation ( LTP ) , which is sustained for much longer periods . |
| 5 | Further readings are more favourable ; the strange cry and the endless sobbing remain in our minds , and it seems that Alice is weeping for far more than she or her unimaginative protector can understand . |
| 6 | One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job . |
| 7 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 8 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 9 | This is happening for totally different reasons . |
| 10 | A domestic model is designed for around half an hour 's use a day . |
| 11 | In Cardiff , Steve Todd 's Parent and Toddler Music Workshop is designed for around seven children and parents . |
| 12 | The system is designed for fairly low volumes so it is more suited to an art studio than in-plant work but many companies already use it instead of a phototypesetter for much of their origination . |
| 13 | The range of boards and sails available is vast but you should realise that the majority of the equipment is designed for highly specific uses . |
| 14 | Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week . |
| 15 | A special overlap and border adhesive , like a thick pva , is made for just this type of situation . |
| 16 | Once teams are working effectively , managerial effort is freed for more strategic activities . |
| 17 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 18 | The initiative coincided with a ‘ Switch-on Campaign ’ by the campus radio stations , which is lobbying for more open access to broadcasting . |
| 19 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 20 | The Green Revolution did bring about an increase in the production of food , which is needed for both urban and rural populations . |
| 21 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 22 | A new flotilla route in the Dodecanese Islands is offered for more experienced sailors . |
| 23 | The bluefin is heavily fished as it fetches high prices in Japan where it is sold for as much as $40 a pound . |
| 24 | The letters arrive all year round though Praise Be is shown for only five or six weeks a year . |
| 25 | Erm what the conservatives are going to do is they do what 's in a sort of er is going for very considerable cuts in the budget of this erm . |
| 26 | In certain circumstances it may become necessary to seek waivers from the Law Society , as for instance : ( 1 ) where the new office is no more than a consulting room open for restricted periods , when a waiver would normally be granted provided ( a ) the opening hours are sufficiently advertised ; ( b ) during those hours there is always in attendance a person duly qualified to manage or supervise the office and that all correspondence is seen by a partner of the firm ; and ( c ) the business of the consultancy is accounted for centrally and not as a separate business ; or ( 2 ) where the new office is an annexe ( whether housing a separate department or otherwise ) near to the main office , when a waiver could be expected to be granted if ( a ) a common switchboard is used for both main office and annexe ; ( b ) accounts are centralised ; ( c ) correspondence is attended to in the main office ; and ( d ) clients are asked to address correspondence to the main office . |
| 27 | Coal is used for only three purposes : heating houses , generating electricity and making steel . |
| 28 | Normally , this method of ‘ free chromaticism ’ , or ‘ free twelve-note composition ’ , is used for highly chromatic music which avoids tonal suggestions and uses all twelve notes of the total-chromatic fairly consistently . |
| 29 | The house is abandoned when hunting is unproductive , the local fields are exhausted or the head of the village dies , so that in general one site is used for about six years . |
| 30 | No he 's going for over two weeks . |