Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 2 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 3 | However , unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties . |
| 4 | Marx 's work on class has been examined in detail for the following reasons . |
| 5 | Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production . |
| 6 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 7 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 8 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 9 | Parker , signed from Nottingham Forest nearly 12 months ago , has been placed on stand-by for England 's qualifying clash against Norway at Wembley . |
| 10 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 11 | Whilst computing was the cowboy contractors in in order for our members to keep their jobs hours have been cut , bonuses have been cut and arrangements for a working year have been changed and many many other things have been altered in order for people to save their jobs within local authority services . |
| 12 | Two patients developed an acute psychosis : the first , who had just finished therapy , required intensive psychiatric care for two weeks ; the second , who had been treated with interferon for three weeks , fell and fractured the acetabulum . |
| 13 | June Smith 's daughter , Tracey and her children have been treated in hospital for shock . |
| 14 | Chimpanzees have been reared in darkness for varying periods after birth in order to test their subsequent perceptual capacity . |
| 15 | And tickets are to go on sale for an Easter draw with a huge Easter Egg as first prize . |
| 16 | then showing that some terminology is required to discuss such things : terms are taught in context for a purpose . |
| 17 | Those who have worked with the animals are filled with nostalgia for the gentle giants . |
| 18 | While Sunday provides the flash-point for our worship , this can only happen when our Mondays to Saturdays are filled with praise for God as well . |
| 19 | But Craven is already in his eighties and has been plagued by ill-health for some time . |
| 20 | Peake has been registered in time for tomorrow 's home game against Preston North End . ’ |
| 21 | The robot has been developed in preparation for new legislation which is currently under consideration . |
| 22 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 23 | With all the ingredients in hand , a regular slot on the weekly network schedule is assigned , and the entire cast meets for several hours ' ’ wood-shed ’ rehearsal where the individual numbers are whittled into shape for the performance . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Kevin Keegan delivered his half-term report at Newcastle , declaring : ‘ We are bang on course for the Premier League . ’ |
| 25 | THREE East Anglian players are bang on course for reaching the matchplay stage of the English Ladies Championship at St Enodoc Golf Club on the north coast of Cornwall ( writes Lee Dinmore ) . |
| 26 | In an emotional debate , all Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) deputies walked out in protest , claiming that they had been insulted by Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) leader Leszek Moczulski . |
| 27 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 28 | The day after that smoke signal was released , the same non-attributable sources let it be known that Heseltine had been rebuked in Cabinet for busting the collective line . |
| 29 | ‘ I am filled with admiration for the new headquarters , Monsieur de Chavigny . |
| 30 | ‘ Besides , I 've never been consumed with lust for the caress of a grey woollen glove . ’ |