Example sentences of "be [verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 2 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 3 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 4 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 5 | The ideas that have been developed for this region can be applied to most turbulent flows adjacent to a wall : for example , to turbulent channel and pipe flow ( although not , for example , to a boundary layer close to separation ) . |
| 6 | Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose . |
| 7 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 8 | Arrangements have been completed for this . |
| 9 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 10 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 11 | Since three out of every four owners report behavioural problems with their dogs at some stage , it is clear that probably most strays are discarded for this reason , rather than because of other factors such as family break-ups or emigration . |
| 12 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 13 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 14 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 15 | The room had not been booked for this . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose . |
| 17 | In addition , a number of works from the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen have been added for this showing . |
| 18 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 19 | If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar . |
| 20 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 21 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 22 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 23 | Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts … |
| 24 | She had , in part , been prepared for this . |
| 25 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 26 | The implants used to replace the hip are manufactured for this market by a dozen or so companies , many of which are multinationals with their main marketing base in the United States . |
| 27 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 28 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 29 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 30 | This has proved so popular that arrangements have been made for this to be included in the admission price to the Centre . |