Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] are [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 2 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 3 | There are 15 roads , 12 of which are reserved for painting , while Nos. 1 , 2 and 3 are provided with pits and used for over-hauling the electric light equipment of the coaches ' and ‘ 46 , known as ‘ No. 1 Paint Shop Extension ’ , in which there are 15 lines . |
| 4 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 5 | In his article ‘ Sovereignty and interdependence : Britain 's place in the world ’ , he defines sovereignty as ‘ a nation 's practical capacity to maximise its influence in the world ’ and uses the metaphor of a ‘ bundle of sticks ’ , some of which are exchanged for others , to illustrate that ‘ sovereignty is not like virginity , something you either have or do not have . ’ |
| 6 | On the ground floor , the extension houses an area for the many periodicals , some of which are paid for by our own library appeal fund . |
| 7 | Altogether there are 32 looms at Sekers , some of which are used for development work . |
| 8 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 9 | It will affect about a dozen reactors , all of which are used for research purposes only . |
| 10 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 11 | It has 43% of the city 's short stay beds ; the other 57% being in private hospitals , two thirds of which are run for profit and one third not . |
| 12 | The majority of these are elderly women , many of whom are caring for siblings . |
| 13 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 14 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 15 | These days more and more of us are going for names we can trust — household names like Matchbox for instance which we remember from our own childhood . |
| 16 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 17 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Federalni Shromazdeni ) , which consists of a 200-member Chamber of the People ( Snemovna Lidu ) and a 150-member Chamber of the Nations ( Snemovna Narodu ) , both of which are elected for a five-year term . |
| 18 | Legislative authority is held by a bicameral Congress made up of a 180-member Chamber of Deputies and a 60-member Senate , both of which are elected for five-year terms , the Senate on a regional basis and the Chamber of Deputies by constituencies under a system of proportional representation . |
| 19 | There are four full-time Research Officers and the rest of the work is done by 13 research assistants , some of whom are part-time and most of whom are studying for PhDs . |
| 20 | That 's why we want to stay in Hout Bay and most of us are working for them here in Hout Bay ; they should know that . |
| 21 | The Accademia 's curator Annalisa Perissa Torrina has compiled detailed notes on each of the 221 drawings now in the Accademia and has identified the original sources of the reproductive drawings , 124 of which are reproduced for the first time . |