Example sentences of "[being] [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 2 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 3 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
| 4 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
| 5 | The severe drought of the past three years is being blamed for a big increase in the number of houses suffering from subsidence . |
| 6 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 7 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 8 | Plans are being prepared for a new communications network which would enable rapid and cost-effective exchanges of information between the police national computer and forces , and between police forces themselves . |
| 9 | Colchester , UK : Packs jointly developed by Betts Plastics , part of Courtaulds Aerospace , with The Robert McBride Group are being used for a new range of shower gels ( below ) sold by the Superdrug retail chain . |
| 10 | The building was in fact being used for a small-scale version of the oxide reprocessing planned for the THORP complex : it has been sealed and closed ever since . |
| 11 | In addition to its obvious implications for the prison numbers crisis , such a strategy again raises the spectre of an incapacitatory penalty being used for a certain group of offenders on the basis of their anticipated dangerousness in the future . |
| 12 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 13 | Newmarket Magistrates told Youds he came close to being disqualified for a speeding offence which warranted a six unit fine . |
| 14 | Examine the figures in Table 4 where the two years 1983 and 1988 are being compared for a hypothetical economy . |
| 15 | Others speculated that the foundations were being laid for a pan-European unity which might stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic . |
| 16 | Twenty golfers took part in the annual event and plans are being laid for a Fine Earthenware matchplay knockout competition next year . |
| 17 | They 're being detained for a long time . |
| 18 | Police officers opened boxes and bags in the attics where furnishings were being stored for a new extension , and they went through the rest of the house just as painstakingly . |
| 19 | ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) . |
| 20 | Just for a second she wondered if she was being taken for a complete fool . |
| 21 | Entries are still being taken for a Red Cross sponsored walk through Hamsterley Forest on April 12 . |
| 22 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 23 | The chairman of British Gas gets a 17pc pay rise while the small gas users are being hammered for a full standing charge even if they use only one unit per quarter . |
| 24 | The Sydney meeting and concert is being filmed for a special video to be sold on Merseyside and across Australia . |
| 25 | The lingering doubts were probably always there , even if a war received the approval of the Church that it was being fought for a good cause . |
| 26 | The risk of a very old person falling and being left for a long period lying on the floor is a sufficient anxiety to encourage some families to opt for residential care for their elderly family member , when with enough support it might not be necessary ( Challis and Davies , 1985 , p. 571 ) . |
| 27 | Be that as it may , the work on the buildings , which it has been claimed were being constructed for a newly-constituted civitas capital , was at some time in the later second century violently interrupted and , with one exception , not resumed until the Severan period . |
| 28 | Position papers continued to be drafted in the State Department in 1944–45 with preference being expressed for a unified administration in Korea as part of the trusteeship rather than the creation of military zones . |
| 29 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 30 | And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back . |