Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] for [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 2 | Although the results achieved by the Leeds adjournment system appeared to favour its widespread adoption , this has not happened , although adjournment has been pressed for in some parts of the country — for example , in South Wales — and has been regarded as useful in certain cases by many authorities . |
| 3 | The findings from this study are based on responses from 300 people ( 177 women and 123 men ) , 100 of whom have also been interviewed ; this group has been disabled for between 20 and 80 years ( Zarb , 1991b ; Zarb and Oliver , 1991 , 1992 ) . |
| 4 | No share premium has been accounted for on this issue . |
| 5 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 6 | Some 21 per cent of all flows into unemployment by men who had previously been employed were accounted for in this way , slightly more than were accounted for by redundancy ( 20 per cent ) or dissatisfaction with pay or conditions ( 19 per cent ) and considerably more than were accounted for by dismissals ( 10 per cent ) ( Wood , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | If you happen to be a policeman , however , or a friend of one of the ‘ lads ’ , but do not happen to share their attitudes towards black people , you are in an even more awkward and complicated position ; how can you avoid being spoken for by those who ‘ represent ’ you in the text ? |
| 8 | The folding of a protein is a highly cooperative process ; in the case of R2 the energy cost of the clustering of carboxyl side chains in the interior of the protein must have been accounted for by other means . |
| 9 | Performance itself soon established norms which by 1950 were higher than had been hoped for in 1945 ; and then , as European recovery got underway , the standard became even more precise and , for Britain , more formidable . |
| 10 | The loss on sale was £22 million , which had been provided for in 1991 . |
| 11 | And just what had been paid for in this case ? |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for on one . |
| 13 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 14 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 15 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 16 | This is something that the G M B have been campaigning for since nineteen ninety . |
| 17 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 18 | The difference is that the copy has been supplied by a PRO and the photography and space have been paid for by that PRO 's company or organisation . |
| 19 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |