Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 2 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 3 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 4 | An office has been prepared for you in the Kremlin . |
| 5 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 6 | Well you 're charged for it from the erm a private call but you 're not charged |
| 7 | Liston and company were out on the lawn behind the house , where an old-fashioned wrought-iron table and some matching chairs had been set for them in the evening sunlight . |
| 8 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 9 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 10 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 13 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 14 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 15 | Governors will , therefore , depend heavily upon the guidance and information which can be provided for them within the school . |
| 16 | Next morning in the market , shopping for a picnic , our struggles with the phrasebook brought an English-speaking Thai to our rescue , explaining that the quail eggs we had bought were raw , but could be cooked for us in the soup cauldron wherever we took breakfast . |
| 17 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 18 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 19 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 20 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 21 | He was so modest , reticent , and reserved that his paper on his voyage of 1880 , given at the Royal Geographical Society , had to be read for him by the secretary . |
| 22 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 23 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 24 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
| 25 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 26 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 27 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 28 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 29 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 30 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |