Example sentences of "[be] [be] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-dimensional figures , inspired by Donald McGill 's saucy postcards , are being tested for an environmental art scheme . |
| 2 | Clients feel that they are being overcharged for an inadequate service : they quote a high incidence of mistakes and insufficient contact with personnel handling their affairs . |
| 3 | Chickens are being blamed for an estimated 6m cases of salmonella poisoning a year in Germany . |
| 4 | Power is being exercised for an improper purpose ( to regulate unfurnished property ) and power is being used unreasonably ( £6,000 might be argued to be excessive ) . |
| 5 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |