Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 3 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 4 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 5 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 6 | Working flat out to keep up with demand , bales of yarn are stacked ready for the next load by Despatch Foreman , Peter McCall . |
| 7 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 8 | This last short section concerns the fate of large institutional sites in the countryside , principally redundant hospital sites which are becoming available for redevelopment as the result of community care and other policies . |
| 9 | Though no good new assays exist to supplement assays of alkaline phosphatase to assess bone formation , more specific markers are becoming available for bone resorption . |
| 10 | Ironically , the best hope for the pilot whales of the North Atlantic is that they are becoming unsafe for humans to eat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | People are becoming responsible for their own happiness and health , and for what 's happening to the planet . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Interestingly , no similar safeguard has yet been considered appropriate for the video industry under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984 . |
| 15 | Up to this time , Leith had not been considered suitable for some of the larger excursion steamers . |
| 16 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 17 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 18 | All patients had been considered unsuitable for surgery either due to incurable disease ( documented distal metastases or advanced locoregional disease ) , or high surgical risk such as advanced age or severe cardiorespiratory disease ; 80% were tertiary referrals . |
| 19 | I joined the local ARP Services , and as my husband had not been considered fit for Navy service yet , he did too , unofficially of course . |
| 20 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 21 | Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use . |
| 22 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 23 | And if certain areas of life and behaviour are deemed suitable for morality , but not law , this suggests a view that law has internal limitations which do not relate to its pedigree . |
| 24 | It provides information on all materials that are deemed appropriate for these awards . |
| 25 | A spokesman said : ‘ As the Secretary of State has repeatedly said , he will take account of any recommendations of the Royal Commission [ in England and Wales ] which are deemed appropriate for Scotland . |
| 26 | Welfare , in the broader view of which this approach to child care might be deemed a part , is construed in individual terms : individuals are deemed responsible for their conduct , and little weight is given to structural , environmental and material determinants of behaviour . |
| 27 | The polysorbates are deemed responsible for these changes . |
| 28 | No injustice would be caused to these States by holding them to their agreement , for ‘ as a general rule , those who engage in transactions of an economic nature are deemed liable for the obligations which flow therefrom ’ . |
| 29 | Taken from the Spanish word , macho , meaning male , machismo refers to an ideology of behaviour in which distinctly different lifestyles are deemed proper for men and women . |
| 30 | In the Method Tailoring phase , the analyst considers the type of instrument , or instruments , that are considered suitable for the particular investigation and decides their specific role in the analysis . |