Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 2 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 3 | Eventually they joined forces with other graduates sharing the same skewed sense of humour , Michael Palin , Terry Jones , Eric Idle and an American-born cartoonist and graphic artist , Terry Gilliam ; and on Sunday 5 October 1969 ( incongruously enough , in a scheduling slot which had always been rigorously reserved for programmes of a religious cast ) the very first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus was broadcast . |
| 4 | Peels are mostly used for limestones and calcite-cemented clastic rocks , although cherts and siliceous clastics can be successfully treated . |
| 5 | I am rarely lost for words to say what I mean |
| 6 | Cohort life tables are little used for humans because : |
| 7 | As for the future he said : ‘ We are constantly striving for ways in which to improve quality and efficiency and to eliminate waste and mediocrity . |
| 8 | We are constantly searching for ways to better the nutritional quality of our menu , whilst retaining the characteristic taste and flavour of our food . |
| 9 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 10 | Some rooms are especially adapted for visitors with physical disabilities . |
| 11 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
| 12 | If a business only exceeds the threshold for arrivals of goods and not despatches , then SSDs are only completed for arrivals ; similarly , if the threshold is only breached for goods despatched , then SSDs only need to be completed for despatches . |
| 13 | Extra payments are only made for items not detailed in the original spec . |
| 14 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 15 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 16 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 17 | These are one-year full-time courses which are normally designed for sixteen-year-olds . |
| 18 | Police are already hunting for bodies working on the killer 's directions . |
| 19 | It 's always the way it 's they 're just looking for accents erm trouble is in the , if it 's in the office and you 're talking anywhere in the house you ca n't hear |
| 20 | has got to remember that a duty was put upon the County Councils of Great Britain in nineteen sixty eight to provide sites for gipsies , and here were are in nineteen ninety one — that 's damn near thirty years further on , and we 're still looking for sites to get the county designated . |
| 21 | They 're still looking for improvements . |
| 22 | I think sometimes they do tell you a lot but er y'know generally speaking they 're like looking for items that strongly distinguish . |
| 23 | And they 're always collecting for babies unit . |
| 24 | Because they do things like that at customs because they 're looking , they 're always looking for drugs and things that should n't come in . |
| 25 | " But we need bodies to practise on , " he grinned , " we 're always looking for volunteers . " |
| 26 | Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it . |
| 27 | Erm I did n't get anywhere that you actually reminded the prospect erm or pe potential client here why you 're actually asking for referrals . |
| 28 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 29 | At The Royal Bank of Scotland we are always looking for ways to ensure that our customers achieve a good return from their savings , particularly now that interest rates are much lower . |
| 30 | However , that process is continually evolving and we are always looking for suggestions to aid its development . |