Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 2 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 3 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 4 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 5 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 6 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 7 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |
| 8 | The clearing banks keep operational balances at the Bank which are used for settling the final position at the end of the day between the Bank and the banking system , and their drawing down of money from the discount houses will be designed to keep these balances at a " target " level considered appropriate given the uncertainty of the daily cash flows to the Bank . |
| 9 | Firstly , they are used in focusing the search on promising hypotheses , but ultimately they are needed for choosing the final interpretation of a unit . |
| 10 | At school , you are rewarded for knowing the right answers . |
| 11 | Clear instructions are provided for making the basic back , front and sleeve blocks , together with easy-to-follow diagrams . |
| 12 | No wonder Credit staff are known for downing the odd pint or two — talk about stress ! |
| 13 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 14 | You could be forgiven for thinking the only ‘ grand challenge ’ IBM Corp faces is turning its profit and loss account around . |
| 15 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , a cynic could be forgiven for finding the penal crisis uncannily reminiscent of the supposed ‘ crisis of capitalism ’ , which some Marxists were once ever assuring us was real , severe , ever-worsening and likely to prove terminal in the near future . |
| 17 | Nobody could be blamed for thinking the worst . |
| 18 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 19 | Anyone could be forgive for thinking the Happy Holiday Hotel was a madhouse , with its bizarre collection of staff and its temperamental manager , George . |
| 20 | For a blind with a shaped hemline , a further allowance should be added for facing the shaped edge ; allow a depth of between 8 and 15cm ( 3–6in ) for this depending on the depth of the edging below the lath . |
| 21 | We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot . |
| 22 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |
| 23 | Most simply replace the existing rocker switch , but can not be used for controlling the fluorescent lighting . |
| 24 | The surface of the tablet can be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting the main functions . |
| 25 | Instead the contributions can only be used for boosting the actual pension itself . |
| 26 | The cor anglais can probably be spared ( if we are using one ) but the bass clarinet will be needed for strengthening the bass line , especially as the cellos have been taken away from it . |
| 27 | It was a shattering experience for the man who will long be remembered for holing the 15 foot birdie putt to beat Andy North and clinch the historic 1985 Ryder Cup success at The Belfry . |
| 28 | In this matter many teachers should be arrested for misleading the young ! |
| 29 | The disposal can present a problem for a large works , and space has to be allocated for allowing the wet sludge to drain and for storage before the solid call be carted away . |
| 30 | This would have been very difficult , because the site is on a low hill and some means would have had to be found for overcoming the unfavourable gradients ; a siphon effect has been suggested , but that would have involved making the whole length of piping airtight , which seems scarcely credible . |