Example sentences of "for be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 2 | It was the usual reason for the angry young hero 's spleen ; Jimmy Porter goads the hapless colonel 's daughter , Alison , as immobile and submissive as the very ironing board at which she uncomplainingly stands , for being middle class . |
| 3 | Even at lesbian conferences such as Canterbury , Nottingham and Bristol , separatists were castigated for being smug extremists . |
| 4 | For being four minutes late for duty , I was warned . |
| 5 | SINCE Barclays Bank has just won an award for being model employers despite laying off hundreds of workers , I suppose the Government deserves three gold medals for allowing Cammell Laird to close . |
| 6 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 7 | Sagittarians had a reputation for being insatiable travellers , and she was no exception , but please God she would journey to other places where there were no poignant memories . |
| 8 | EVERY ONCE in a while Tranmere produce a performance which makes nonsense of their reputation for being uneasy travellers . |
| 9 | EVERY once in a while Tranmere produce a performance which makes nonsense of their reputation for being uneasy travellers . |
| 10 | Sainsbury 's cookbooks are generally renowned for being good value for money and The Cooking of Russia by Karen Craig and Seva Novgorodsev ( £1.25 ) is no exception . |
| 11 | Should a driver be prosecuted for being 10 cm or a metre away from the kerb ? |
| 12 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 13 | And as for being six pound up , she says I must have short-changed someone . |
| 14 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |
| 15 | He apologised profusely for being five years late when he opened the annual fund-raising garden party for the hospice . |
| 16 | But the people of the Dordogne have always had a reputation for being independent thinkers . ’ |
| 17 | → Thanks for being this month 's voice of sanity , Dick , and for your comments regarding the magazine . |
| 18 | Korean owners of low-margin textile and shoe factories in Indonesia have gained a reputation for being harsh employers who pay low wages . |
| 19 | Several people volunteered for being special constables but Tom remained silent . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe that would help the lower ranked people to have the motivation and to get eager , ’ she added , while acknowledging that might merely have the effect of less ambitious ones accepting good money for being relative failures . |
| 21 | Conservatives disliked the Argentine government for being aggressive foreigners ; Labour men attacked it as ‘ a tin-pot fascist junta ’ . |
| 22 | Paul won the monthly £50 prize for being top Consultant in the Royal Scottish North West England/Lancashire Region and other regional winners were June Hanney ( Glasgow ) , Grant Devine ( London ) , Michael Malone ( West Scotland ) , Ken Smith ( East Scotland ) . |
| 23 | Holborn picked up the 1992 Best Overall Branch prize , Threadneedle Street were presented with a plaque for being top Branch in the Customer Satisfaction Index for 1992–93 , and Pall Mall received the Cost/Income Award for 1991–92/ The top student award went to Julian Gouge who , in 1992 , achieved the highest aggregate marks among all Royal Bank candidates in the Associateship examinations . |
| 24 | They are not , of course , sufficient features and I shall make neither claims nor suggestions here as to the sufficiency of existing or possible machines for being conscious entities . |
| 25 | The best that can be hoped for is that government intervention improves the social efficiency of resource allocation , rather than achieving optimality . |
| 26 | I mean if you do buy hessian back carpet the only thing we do charge extra for is two pound fifty on top or two , seventy five , two seventy five for underlay and that sort of stuff , if you buy foam back it 's the price you see So everyone 's on that training scheme now I suppose are n't they ? |
| 27 | The fact is that what you pay for is instant accuracy — but not really convenience . |
| 28 | The most Bush can hope for is Soviet agreement for more help for the military blockade ; what he 'll probably achieve is yet another condemnation of Saddam Hussein . |
| 29 | ‘ What we are looking for is loving care and attention in the home . ’ |
| 30 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |