Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | These fish medications and water quality aids are designed for coldwater and tropical tanks . |
| 2 | Visually stimulating objects , such as Christmas tree decorations and toys with sound effects are recommended for pre-school and playgroup activities . |
| 3 | A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings . |
| 4 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 5 | Do n't use a varnish finish unless the door is very well protected by a porch and you are prepared for regular and frequent maintenance to keep it looking good . |
| 6 | Data are presented for 1963–83 and for 1984–90 . |
| 7 | Mr Major has said privately that he does not believe it is necessary to follow the Taylor recommendations to the letter , but he will insist that the changes are made for First and Second Division clubs . |
| 8 | Model lasts — from which 10 to 12 production lasts are made for left and right feet — have to be made in five widths for each of 10 sizes . |
| 9 | But documents can be dangerous things if used without care and if , as sometimes happens , they are used for partial and selective purposes . |
| 10 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 11 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 12 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 13 | As there were only five women with duodenal ulcer disease and as there were no differences apparent , the results shown in the table are pooled for male and female patients . |
| 14 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 15 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 16 | Most of this increase stems directly from government policies and , although some extra resources have been allocated for 1990/91 and 1991/92 , little has been done to remedy the situation . |
| 17 | A target of recycling 50 per cent of recyclable household waste has been set for 2000 and recycling facilities will be a requirement at new shopping developments . |
| 18 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 19 | Now the Amendment that has been proposed for this and and the Noble Lord , Lord erm Amendment erm I think it 's Eleven , yes , er proposes something of this nature , but it does n't like co-option . |
| 20 | Spectra or Dyneema lines are slippery and very difficult to knot permanently , so the fishing technique of ‘ sleeving ’ has been adapted for this and each of the similar materials . |
| 21 | Henry 's main religious innovations — the break with Rome , the dissolution of the monasteries , and the partial dissolution of the chantries — had been introduced for political and financial rather than theological reasons . |
| 22 | As time passed she could be halted for longer and longer intervals , and eventually she forgot her rearing habit altogether . |
| 23 | Even so , an anti-Subirachs cabal has sprung up , calling for his work at the Sagrada Familia to be stopped for artistic and ideological reasons . |
| 24 | Therefore a part of the dispute between the two theorists revolved around how the market mechanisms were to be used , and what pricing policies should be pursued for industrial and agricultural production . |
| 25 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 26 | Full provision is to be made for current and deferred taxation at the local statutory rate applicable , which for the United Kingdom is to be 35% . |
| 27 | For private and voluntary homes , these can vary from home to home and different charges may be made for single and shared rooms . |
| 28 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 29 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 30 | Catheters and endoscopes can be used for safer and less painful investigations . |