Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 2 | As she strolled past the shop windows she ran her fingers through the short layered style that the hairdresser had said was made for her , and felt like someone else . |
| 3 | Motion two seven nine as the General Secretary has indicated is asking for reference . |
| 4 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
| 5 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 6 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 7 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |
| 8 | They bought a Spanish villa rooted into the hillside at many levels , a house rumoured to have been built for Rudolph Valentino . |
| 9 | The preoccupations of this text are most readily explained on the view that , to bar missio , value had to have been paid for an object under trust . |