Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not have a heated bathroom then invest in a high wall-mounted heater , which has to be the type approved for bathroom use , and should be connected through the wall to a power source outside the room . |
| 2 | Clear examples of it would be the cat leaping for its ball , or a lion in pursuit of a zebra . |
| 3 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 4 | There would appear to be the need to develop for these and possibly many other applications , heat sensors sufficiently resistant to fire and high temperatures to act not only as actuating mechanisms for automatic systems but also to provide continuous readings of temperature in their permanent locations . |
| 5 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 6 | Amongst the panda community there are many social hierarchies , subsequently when captive breeding takes place there can be no allowance made for this . |
| 7 | But in the worst-case scenario , if the heir to the throne can not hold his marriage together , there could be no throne left for him , or his eldest son , to inherit . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH there are only four more tournaments to count towards the final Order of Merit , there will be no end-of-season relaxing for the professionals on the European women 's Tour , who tee off in the Laing Charity Classic here today . |
| 9 | Eventually there will be no variation left for natural selection to work upon . |
| 10 | One prisoner , condemned to transportation , found there to be no ship leaving for Botany Bay in the near future . |
| 11 | There are far too many pressures on your time : there will be no time left for " writing up later " . |
| 12 | These things , there would simply be no time left for |
| 13 | ‘ If development like this is allowed there will be no wildlife left for coming generations to enjoy , ’ said Labour councillor Ben Brenkley . |
| 14 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 15 | Yet , looking down today from these Wessex Heights , there seems to be no reason to fear for the future of this supremely beautiful landscape . |
| 16 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 17 | and they assured us there would be a bit incorporated for audio description , so what it was , was half of us entrance into the lighted sound box , cut off , it was a , sort of triangular , but erm , to see out the window |
| 18 | There would be a price to pay for this abandonment . |
| 19 | It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) . |
| 20 | In the case of a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r 11 does not apply the return day must , unless the court otherwise directs , be a day fixed for a pre-trial review ( Ord 3 , r 3(3) ) . |
| 21 | It should be a day to remember for Chapman , who has been in the business for 30 years . |
| 22 | It sounds as if the virus is com , is impossible to hold down , could there be a vaccine created for such a changing virus ? |
| 23 | There 'll be a radiologist waiting for us . ’ |
| 24 | The political background was likely to be a country clamouring for tougher punishments and wanting to be convinced that crime will be dealt with , while expert reports called for less resort to prison sentencing . |
| 25 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
| 26 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 27 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 28 | Firstly , there could be a tendency to go for the ‘ lowest skill ’ option in the selection of new technology , in order to reduce training costs and to ensure that existing employees can cope . |
| 29 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 30 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |