Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] for the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies . |
| 2 | The north-east has been transformed for the better , not least by the flow of inward investment and the diversification that has taken place . |
| 3 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 4 | He concluded : ‘ But in my judgment the powers to seize and retain are conferred for the better performances of public functions by public bodies and can not be used to make information available to private individuals for their private purposes . ’ |
| 5 | Some aspects of the methods of containing local government expenditure introduced by the Conservative governments in the early 1980s have been left for the later chapter on intergovernmental relations . |