Example sentences of "be [verb] for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 2 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 3 | YOUR ACCOMMODATION — prices are calculated for one of the following arrangements and this is indicated at the foot of each Club description . |
| 4 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 5 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 6 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 7 | Hundreds of gypsies are gathering for one of the biggest horse fairs of the year . |
| 8 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 9 | Although world trends are blamed for much of the plight of the unemployed , some blame must lie in bad fiscal policy . |
| 10 | Emissions of nitrogen oxides from vehicles are blamed for much of the dramatic increase in asthma , particularly among children where one in seven suffers from the disease . |
| 11 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 12 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 13 | Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk . |
| 14 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 17 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
| 18 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 19 | 4 million quid for a guy that almost went to jail and has been injured for most of the season |
| 20 | The Welsh international has been sidelined for much of the past two seasons . |
| 21 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 22 | The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system . |
| 23 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 24 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 25 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 26 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 27 | No charges are made for any of the above . |
| 28 | But in the main we are looking for er somewhere in the region of er hundred and eighty pounds per per per deal and we 're looking for one of those a day average . |
| 29 | And so , very the onus would be would they not , the three things that we 're looking for most of the time . |
| 30 | Welcoming the deal , general manager said : ‘ This is our first programme in aircraft seats and we 're looking for more of the same sort of business . |