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

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1 You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ?
2 Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ?
3 The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion .
4 Separate codes are given for the various mixed degrees which are on offer .
5 These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 .
6 Eminent scientists are clamouring for an outright ban on all chlorine substances .
7 Tint the undercoat with whatever you are using for the final colour and you will get a good , even finish .
8 For any given program there is an optimum or efficient memory usage for an environment in which many programs are competing for the limited available real memory .
9 Sheffield Steelers are sweeping the opposition aside in their bid to gain league entry , while Trafford Metros , Medway Bears and Streatham Redskins are competing for the other vacancy .
10 Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement .
11 It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture .
12 Continuously rolling recorder charts are checked for the distinctive blips .
13 standing committees which are formed for a particular purpose on a permanent basis .
14 Emission standards are designated for a large number of pollutants or combinations of pollutants and may be applied to individual or specific groups of emitters .
15 It is suggested that the use of general dictionaries may be insufficient to recognise text taken from more esoteric domains or documents that are intended for a specific audience .
16 Sewage works , farming , industry in general and drought are blamed for the declining quality of our rivers , canals and estuaries .
17 ‘ The sessions are designed for the curious and the inexperienced , ’ Miss Evans said .
18 Few exercise routines are designed for the 55-plus age range , so do n't do anything that hurts or is exhausting .
19 Long leys ( often misnamed ‘ permanent leys ’ ) are designed for the long-term improvement of grassland .
20 These lunchtime seminars in the heart of the Birmingham business quarter are designed for the growing network of media enterprises in the city .
21 But not all radio campaigns are in support of TV , and all TV ads are designed for an additional sense : sight .
22 A cruel generalisation , but probably justified , would be to suggest that the large majority of curricula in Africa are designed for an ideal situation — namely a uniform six-year-old entry , relatively homogeneous in age and culture , equal in sex and of average size ( say 30–45 in a class ) who attend regularly , repeat seldom and complete their primary course .
23 Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected .
24 These drugs are recommended for the short term treatment ( one to two weeks ) of acute constipation and as a purgative before diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy .
25 In the year it joins the group , its results are included for the whole period .
26 the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ;
27 ALMOST four years after the 1985 crash of an airliner in Gander , Newfoundland , in which 248 US servicemen were killed , a group of congressmen are pressing for a new inquiry into the disaster .
28 Priests inside Malawi are pressing for a new statement from the bishops .
29 It is significant that it is the Africans who are pressing for a partial lifting of the ban and the maligned fur trade has made no move in that direction .
30 And remember that you are walking for the psychological benefits as well as the fitness and slimness benefits .
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