Example sentences of "be [verb] for [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the results achieved by the Leeds adjournment system appeared to favour its widespread adoption , this has not happened , although adjournment has been pressed for in some parts of the country — for example , in South Wales — and has been regarded as useful in certain cases by many authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ In Ambleside there are several lodging houses , but it is a matter of surprise to the writer that there are not a greater number , as during the travelling season , when all such houses are full , more are enquired for by those who wish to see the country apart from the bustle , not to speak of the expense , of an inn . |
| 3 | There may be other occasions but these three are vouched for by several different would-be passengers . |
| 4 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 5 | Further losses from the ecosystem occur as crops and/or animals are harvested and exported ; and such cumulative losses , unless they are compensated for with artificial fertilisers , often lead to farm abandonment . |
| 6 | His photograph had also been vouched for by several of the witnesses . |
| 7 | So you want it arranged in some form that makes it easy to retrieve ( find ) the specific item you are looking for at any given moment . |
| 8 | The findings from this study are based on responses from 300 people ( 177 women and 123 men ) , 100 of whom have also been interviewed ; this group has been disabled for between 20 and 80 years ( Zarb , 1991b ; Zarb and Oliver , 1991 , 1992 ) . |
| 9 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 10 | It was just one of those situations where you find just the sound you 're looking for at that particular time . |
| 11 | Whatever your ideas on style and whatever your budget , you will find what you 're looking for at Allied . |
| 12 | so what you 're looking for in any formula shush daddy 's talking Matthew ! |
| 13 | Erm wh what they 're looking for in this answer is erm Because it 's the angle in the semicircle angle B is ninety degrees . |
| 14 | Also it is a common feature of course that you need to order the resources , that you have the resource in terms of people or the economy or the armed forces , you need to order those resources to try to achieve your ends erm and we 'll look at that later , the aims that you 're going for in foreign policy so they 're common , that you 're in the same environment , that you 've got to m er whatever the resources you have you have to try to organize them to achieve your ends and so on . |
| 15 | The budget figure is what 's been agreed with and it 's a straightforward month by month , seasonally adjusted erm budget which comes to the end result figure that we 're aiming for for this year . |
| 16 | But they 're asking for for thirty six , |
| 17 | But have a look at the rule and you 'll find that it bloody well states exactly what they 're asking for in that motion . |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for on one . |
| 19 | Three fundamental changes are called for in this regard . |
| 20 | A further 25,000 are cared for in homes run by voluntary organizations and 78,000 are cared for in private residential care . |
| 21 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 22 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 23 | The retreat will open from Tuesdays to Sundays and bookings are invited for up five nights . |
| 24 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 25 | The molecules that control transcription are themselves proteins which are coded for by other genes . |
| 26 | The loss on sale was £22 million , which had been provided for in 1991 . |
| 27 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 28 | As a rule of thumb , a pre-sensitised board can be exposed for between 5 and 10 minutes using an ordinary UV light box . |
| 29 | For a start there were no agreed criteria for subdividing the cerebral cortex into regions , and criteria were not destined to be developed for about another century . |
| 30 | ( 14.3 ) This equation must now be solved for with initial data defining the approaching waves given by and . |