Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 2 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 3 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 4 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 5 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 6 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 7 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 8 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 9 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 10 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 11 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 12 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 13 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 14 | Some flights are night flights — when you arrive in the resort your room is immediately available , as it has been reserved for the whole night . |
| 15 | If unstable complexes are in a rapid equilibrium with unbound RNA polymerase , as it has been suggested for the E.coli rrnD P 1 and for the B.subtilis citB promoters ( 10 , 11 ) , an increase in the ionic strength should impair promoter efficiency . |
| 16 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 17 | Where the ranges of the tiger and the Asian lion overlap , it has been known for the two to interbreed . |
| 18 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
| 19 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
| 20 | A customised robust variant of it has been designed for the Ministry of Defence under quality-assurance procedures . |
| 21 | On this side of the Atlantic , it has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Prize ( which , unlike the Booker , has the courage to include authors from the US ) . |
| 22 | It has been entered for the 1992 Quality Brick Awards . |
| 23 | It has been shown for the murine NF-L gene , that 1.5kb of the sequence upstream of the transcriptional start site is sufficient to yield brain-specific expression of the homologous gene ( 29 ) as well as heterologous genes ( 30 ) in transgenic mice . |
| 24 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 25 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 26 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 27 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 28 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 29 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 30 | You know , he 's been picked for the conservatives to stand has he ? |