Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In January 1973 the Scottish Education Department , on behalf of the four Central ( Art ) Institutions , formally approached the CNAA with a proposal for their Associateship and Diploma courses to be recognized for a classified degree in art and design .
2 With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three .
3 This increase in greenhouse gases is expected to eventually force global temperatures to rise by 2 to 5 °C , although the full amount of warming will be delayed for a few decades because of oceanic thermal inertia .
4 Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients .
5 Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions .
6 Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices .
7 What was previously assumed to be given for a single capital now needs to be explained .
8 The Prism encoder enables its output to be optimised for a particular target decoder design to maximise image quality at the lowest possible bit rate so that a video-on-demand service provider can minimise central disk storage and maximise use of the available system bandwidth .
9 The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come .
10 Normally six cases will be listed for a half day , which would allow about 30 minutes per case if all the claimants attended , but a significant number do not .
11 A reworking of the basic formula allows a price to be calculated for a desired return .
12 You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future .
13 When measuring success and failure , the standard referential communication approach to the problem is to carry out a task analysis to determine which critical features need to be communicated for a successful outcome .
14 As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom .
15 Bernard Moing , Univel 's regional marketing manager for Europe says , ‘ we 're not expecting any returns on UnixWare until the first quarter of 1993 , and then the take up will be limited for a further period . ’
16 Yet the redefinition of factors which need to be considered for a fuller understanding of politics and power have not gone nearly far enough : they are still confined to the world of public politics and the struggles for power in the public arena .
17 Also , the scale of the problems tends to be smaller ; for example , there are , typically , far fewer anaphors than phonemes in a sentence , and fewer focused candidate referents for a pronoun than ( in a large-vocabulary application ) candidate words to be considered for a given portion of speech .
18 Insurance premiums will eventually be dropped for a low-risk company , but the benefits are even greater , and more rapidly felt , for companies opting for self-insurance .
19 Be that as it may , what are the problems that need to be solved for a European currency union to be created ?
20 His news was too important , too wonderful to be contained for a single instant longer .
21 Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits .
22 This proportion will continue to grow in 1993 as the Company will be included for a full 12 months .
23 The pedagogical grammar must not only be designed for a specific audience ; it must also teach materials that are culturally appropriate .
24 A ley , by definition , is a temporary sward of chosen species of grasses , clovers , and herbs which may be designed for a short or long term .
25 In January 1984 , the Chairman of the ESRC visited Belfast and announced that a further £480,000 was to be committed for a second phase of the programme .
26 Northern Telecom Ltd 's DPN-100 broadband data network system is to be installed for a new system created by Telefonica de Espana SA called the Advanced Business Services Network , in an order worth $23m .
27 The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways .
28 She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre .
29 However , as shown in Fig. 5 , there is an apparent inhibition of transcription following UV irradiation ( Fig. 5 ; P-P ( u ) and B-P ( u ) ) , as would be expected for a trypanosome gene transcribed by a distant promoter .
30 Four months ' observations of QB 1 reveal an orbit that would be expected for a Kuiper-belt object , although there is still considerable uncertainty in the eccentricity .
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