Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 Panchromatic and false-colour infrared images , registered to the British National Grid , are proving very effective for the interpretation of both regional structures and geomorphology ( see frontispiece ) .
2 Biological markers are becoming increasingly important for early detection of an increased cancer risk and as intermediate end points for chemoprevention trials .
3 First tonight , Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a fifteen year old Bathgate girl .
4 Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of fifteen year old Bathgate girl Lorna Dempsey .
5 POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who has been missing from Gartloch Hospital in Glasgow for six days .
6 EUROWIDE EQUITIES As Europe inches towards monetary union and trading barriers are lifted , the European stockmarkets are becoming increasingly significant for UK investors
7 There is the widespread image these days that most tennis players , most independent promoters and certainly the agents , are becoming too greedy for their own good .
8 Offensive weapons are becoming too expensive for smaller countries to afford ’ .
9 Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital .
10 Lack of experience , along with the logical structures that contain it , are considered more responsible for failure in response than any lack of cognitive capacity , and the need to develop strategies designed to extend involvement is seen as a necessary way forward .
11 But facing facts as they are now , it is unlikely that you will encounter many offers of wholemeal pasta and rice on the restaurant circuit ; they are considered too chewy for the ‘ average ’ palate and take too long to cook .
12 Because things are looking fairly bleak for pensions , disable etcetera .
13 Things are made too easy for them .
14 In this day and age things are made quite easy for a young mother , a single parent .
15 On longer journeys , the gas turbine cuts in to take the strain off the batteries and to ensure they are charged up ready for when the car next drives into a city .
16 Wolves v Sheffield Utd Bull and Mutch are reunited up front for Wolves , the former having recovered from concussion sustained in scoring against Villa , when Mutch was absent with a groin strain .
17 ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said .
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