Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the day after Central broadcast a documentary on the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq … revealing how communities are being destroyed … the Prince condemned Saddam Hussein for claiming the marshes are only being drained for agricultural purposes . |
| 2 | Sprinkler bans are already being planned for many areas but not for Surrey . |
| 3 | However , since drivers ' wages are already being paid for full shifts , Dobbs ( 1979 ) argues that the extra costs of providing more off-peak buses on low demand routes is not very great . |
| 4 | Riding on the back of this successful ‘ First ’ , plans are now being made for further courses in 1992 . |
| 5 | To make matters worse , practices that were valued at twice gross recurring fees a few years ago are now being sold for half recurring fees . |
| 6 | Those highly accurate perishable goods — such as salad items — that have always been most commonly wasted are now being targeted for special attention . |
| 7 | Designs are now being considered for small ice-lined cabinets for doctors ’ surgeries , so that doctors can have vaccines at hand to immunise any child who comes for treatment . |
| 8 | The safety recommendations again at the end of the official AIB report reflect this longer term view and , bearing in mind the fact that modern large public transport aircraft are now being used for fifteen or twenty years before they are discarded , the implementation of these recommendations is clearly of the highest importance . |
| 9 | Closed-circuit televisions are now being used for those with a little sight left . |
| 10 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 11 | They are boycotting new assessment procedures , claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads . |
| 12 | Planning permission was sought and granted at breakneck speed and the foundations were already being excavated for twenty-four executive-type four to five bedroom ‘ dwelling units ’ with two garages apiece but no gardens . |
| 13 | Nuclear warheads were also being developed for defensive guided missiles . |
| 14 | The beginning was also a time when I was asked if I , too , would soon let them down ‘ like all the others ’ and when being there was expressed for all by Janet : ‘ I 'm only here because my daughter is the way she is . |
| 15 | Small generators might put in 0.2 amp/hour ( 2.4W ) and are easy to use as they can be left charging indefinitely , even when the yacht is not being used for long periods , without damaging the battery . |
| 16 | When it is not being used for these purposes it is available for use by other organisations . |
| 17 | Britain and Hong Kong claim they are eager for international agencies to monitor the resettlement of the illegal migrants , just as is already being done for those boat people who have returned voluntarily . |
| 18 | Record is also being grown for early lifting in the coastal areas of Cornwall and Wales . |
| 19 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 20 | Metrocast already needs frequency-agile paging to cope with the fragmented US market , and this is now being extended for British businessmen who travel to the States . |
| 21 | IVF , at first touted as a ’ last resort ’ measure for women with blocked tubes , is now being promoted for another group of women , those who can become pregnant but who are ’ carriers ’ of inheritable conditions such as haemophilia , and who may give birth to a child with the condition . |
| 22 | Among the Unit 's many educational activities an international conference on sculpture conservation is currently being organised for 16–18 June1993 hosted by The National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside , Liverpool . |
| 23 | A handout is currently being produced for those responsible for caring for the elderly . |
| 24 | Resource management and conservation strategies are currently being attempted for both polar regions . |
| 25 | But Khomeini again insisted that it was all being done for foreign enemies of the Jews , America and Israel , we must be nailed and killed ; we must be sacrificed to the evil intentions of foreigners " |
| 26 | However , although early Greek literacy must therefore also be labelled ‘ restricted ’ , the foundation was nevertheless being laid for future developments of the ‘ full ’ potential of literacy : ‘ It was only by the time of Plato that the language had changed sufficiently to express new ideas ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 27 | In 1986 the Norwegian government had demanded the return of the water because it suspected that , contrary to the original agreement , it was not being used for peaceful purposes but for the manufacture of plutonium for nuclear weapons [ see p. 36942 ] . |
| 28 | DM reported that , because bulk-loaded film is half the cost of pre-loaded film , it was now being bought for photographic work . |