Example sentences of "[being] [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
| 2 | The technical field being considered for the full proposal is inertial navigation technology . |
| 3 | The bad weather is being blamed for the empty seats , but now it 's cleared up they are confident of full houses until the run ends on April 15th . |
| 4 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , his fierce determination not to get out led to a suspicion of selfishness , and , in 1965 , to his being dropped for the funereal pace of his Edgbaston century against New Zealand . |
| 6 | The new school came into being to provide for the increasing numbers of Methodist children in Edenderry . |
| 7 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | The formal agreement of a number of vendors is still being sought for the planned Unix Common Desktop Environment , CDE . |
| 10 | ENTRIES from the North-East are being sought for the Royal Mail 's twin town award scheme , which aims to find the best link between a British community and a foreign counterpart . |
| 11 | I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA . |
| 12 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 13 | Putting on successively larger weights increases the extension and the " modulus ' is measured from the graphical plot of load against extension , corrections being made for the cross-sectional area and for the original length . |
| 14 | Arrangements are being made for the annual dinner for the institute which is at the Stanwick Arms , in Aldbrough St John on April 29 . |
| 15 | From the window of his room the Collector watched the final preparations being made for the hazardous withdrawal from his original " mud walls " to the new fortifications . |
| 16 | Good performances in the British under 20 water polo trials at Sheffield have results in Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke ( Middlesbrough ) being selected for the 16-strong squad from which the 13 players will be selected for the four-nations tournament in Belgium on May 1–3 . |
| 17 | This year , of course , everything will be geared to being selected for the Olympic Games . |
| 18 | DUNCAN McTier , the first exponent of Peter Maxwell Davies 's new Concerto for Double-bass and Chamber Orchestra ( the seventh of the Strathclyde sequence being written for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ) , coaxes the most prodigiously colourful , rounded and singing sound from his unwieldy instrument . |
| 19 | But getting into RADA was quite a searching process and I remember doing four one-hour work sessions with some of the tutors there , including the Principal , before finally being accepted for the three-year course there . |
| 20 | The snotty-nosed chamberlain tapped his wand on the floor and we were led along marble corridors , through chambers being prepared for the great banquet , past nobles draped in velvet and cloth of gold , retainers in blue , violet and scarlet liveries , all chatting merrily in French . |
| 21 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 22 | Mr Preece said the Four Seasons , in Saltburn , was a top quality home which has boosted interest in the sale but he would not discuss how much was being offered for the different homes . |
| 23 | As an added incentive , two complimentary tickets for the evening 's disco are being offered for the winning entry . |
| 24 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 25 | Police , who kept the crowd away from the entrance being used for the day-long meeting run by the James Connolly Association , said the demonstration passed peacefully . |
| 26 | Unfairly , cast as one of the scapegoats for the islands ' World Cup failure , he readily concedes that his disappointment at being ditched for the inaugural meeting between West Indies and South Africa was acute . |
| 27 | More cynical commentators have suggested that the government 's desire to maintain traditional examinations and to introduce records of achievement as well is a re-enactment of the ‘ sheep and goats ’ mentality of the earlier tripartite system , with academic exams being preserved for the scholastic elite , and records of achievement serving the needs of the rest ( Ranson , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Okay , now putting both bits aside , if we 're making sure , right okay , if we 're making sure that the product is being sold for the right reasons , i.e. the client is separately saving for deposit , for house moving fees , legal fees , all the other fees , and they could still afford to do this , then I believe it 's a good thing that you can suggest to your clients . |
| 29 | The frontier AB shows the maximum quantity of goods which the economy can produce for one person given the quantity of goods being produced for the other person . |
| 30 | Although he is a senior and successful Congress ( I ) figure , and is Minister of State for External Affairs , Mr Singh is being challenged for the ruling party 's nomination by the present Maharajah 's son , Vishwendra Singh . |