Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Twin Squirrel helicopter is identical to the one being manufactured for joint use by the Northamptonshire , Leicestershire and Warwickshire forces . |
| 2 | Many of our featured Caribbean hotels are all-inclusive properties — everything is paid for prior to departure . |
| 3 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 4 | He also insisted that the belief that everything was made for human benefit should not intrude when assessing the merits of rival theories . |
| 5 | One community leader told Sunday Life last week : ‘ We met with senior NIO officials and expressed the opinion that unless something was done for Protestant areas there would be a backlash from paramilitaries . |
| 6 | Thirteen would have been unable to cope with the elimination regimen for social reasons or because of poor understanding , eight had tight small intestinal strictures , and eight were on high dose steroids ( both of which would have made the results difficult to interpret ) , four refused , two were treated for postoperative fistulas , two were pregnant , and one was treated for extensive pyoderma gangrenosum and had no gastrointestinal symptoms . |
| 7 | ‘ This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’ |
| 8 | Only one was admitted for diagnostic dilatation and curettage , which was performed as a day case procedure . |
| 9 | The fighting was caused for three reasons : different sides kept stealing cattle ; everybody was searching for new land ; and according to the Romans the Celts liked fighting . |
| 10 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 11 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |
| 12 | , Walter ( fl. 1476–1499 ) , church musician and composer , Nothing is known for certain of his family , birth , and education ; there is no compelling reason to concur with speculation that the composer may be identifiable with the boy of this name who , having been born in Salisbury around 15 August 1451 or 1452 , was elected a King 's scholar of Eton College on 8 July 1467 . |
| 13 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |