Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 2 | Increases in the costs of transport , housing and health charges and other costs for food , heating and clothing , are becoming unbearable for retired people in my part of the world . |
| 3 | Weekends are getting popular for closing deals : COSE was n't a deal until the evening of Sunday March 14 . |
| 4 | ‘ The very substantial funds which we are making available for Eastern Europe … are separate from and additional to our regular aid programme . ’ |
| 5 | We soon found that some of them were using this for various extra-curricular activities . |
| 6 | He was subsequently dismissed and is suing ABS for unfair dismissal . |
| 7 | It is part of the Managing Money information pack , which N&P is providing FREE for primary schools to help children learn about cash . |
| 8 | Foreign Affairs Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said in Maputo on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that the time was becoming ripe for direct talks between the two sides and praised the efforts of the mediators . |