Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.

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1 The elusive creature may be successfully trailed for a time , then disappear for months and even years .
2 If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday .
3 Elliptically relating this " philosophical task " to academic philosophy ( including the history of philosophy ) , he declared himself to be better qualified for a philosophical chair than a purely philological one .
4 While Egypt might be sufficiently advanced for a liberal democratic experiment , other states in the region were certainly states and elevated local leaders , such as religious or tribal chiefs into monarchs .
5 It has a graphical user interface , provides SQL database support and can be easily customised for a variety of applications such as publishing , insurance , legal , retail distribution , health care , aerospace and government .
6 It has a graphical user interface , provides SQL database support and can be easily customised for a variety of applications such as publishing , insurance , legal , retail distribution , health care , aerospace and government .
7 There is , however , a torque which may be easily calculated for a rectangular loop .
8 Using the M55 and M6 , the beautiful countryside , historic houses , ruined abbeys , and picturesque villages of the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District can be easily visited for a day trip .
9 He may be not qualified for a number of reasons , including that in the above paragraph , save that if a returning officer has decided that the nomination is valid , that decision may not be questioned ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , para.12(5) , ( 6 ) ) .
10 But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear .
11 The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term .
12 But unlike a lot of us who think it will be severely abused for a good many years to come , new agers are optimistic .
13 A Future for Farm Buildings by Gillian Darley shows that , for all the controversy over their conversions , barns can be sympathetically transformed for a range of uses .
14 I propose that a useful point to be considered by the doctor is whether a treatment would be clinically indicated for a private patient with unlimited personal resources .
15 The latter risk of inadequate demand for the final output can be partially solved for a bank by ‘ off-take ’ agreements whereby the project developer and other parties enter an agreement to supply and accept an agreed amount of output at a specific price .
16 The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time .
17 She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball .
18 Strictly , a switch-mode p.s.u. can be precisely designed for a particular output voltage at some stated current ; if that design voltage is altered by some means , the performance deteriorates .
19 Because of the large numbers of emergency caesarean sections it may be true , as Paul Bingham and Richard Lilford claim , that a policy of routine elective caesarean section would not increase immediate maternal mortality , but surely this can not be seriously advocated for a negligible benefit for the fetus .
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