Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashcroft , one of the brightest young middle distance runners in Britain , had the injection in case she is selected for the World Junior Championships in Seoul in September . |
| 2 | Louise uses both names for business purposes , Torsney when she is working for the Hygiene Training Consultancy specialising in tailor-made courses for schools , social services and private hospitals ; and Pollard in her role as hygiene consultant for B & W Hygiene , which is a manufacturer and supplier to the industry . |
| 3 | She is waiting for the clock downstairs to strike twelve . |
| 4 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 5 | In the context of the Act , an association is a company with corporate personality whose members are all corporations , and it is created for the purpose of ‘ promoting harmony of conduct , profitability of the business and trading interests of the members ’ . |
| 6 | However , if it is intended for the community , the contents must reflect the concerns of the community , with comments on the wider world and put together with a certain degree of journalistic skill . |
| 7 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 8 | To ensure that each root definition is well-formed , it is checked for the presence of six characteristics . |
| 9 | Secondly , a covenant simply to pay a sum of money , whether by way of insurance premium , compensation or damages , is a covenant capable of touching and concerning the land provided that the existence of the covenant , and the right to payment thereunder , affects the value of the land in whomsoever it is vested for the time being … |
| 10 | It is cramping for the author , but if you have contracted with your readers to tell them , through a story , what police work is really like then you must accept this limitation . |
| 11 | Now it is used for the hearing of court cases only . |
| 12 | Any part of the cost of a development which is attributable to plant and machinery will generally qualify for a 25% annual allowance if it is used for the purchaser 's trade or leased by the purchaser to another for the purpose of the other 's trade . |
| 13 | It is established for the purpose of correction and oversight . |
| 14 | The objection is that it is enough , for something to be a cause , that it is required for the occurrence of another event . |
| 15 | The ‘ functions ’ argument is the opposite : it is arguing for the necessity of criminalisation . |
| 16 | ‘ It is upsetting for the cast having worked with her for so long . |
| 17 | Instead , it is to send for the advertising man to produce yet another glossy pamphlet — this time , a parents charter which is allegedly embodied in the Bill . |
| 18 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 19 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 20 | If the chattel has been purchased through a dealer or auction house or in market overt ‘ it can not be recovered from the first purchaser or any subsequent bona fide purchaser , unless he is compensated for the purchase-money paid ’ [ Art . |
| 21 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 22 | That is unless , like Wade Dooley whom Rodber joined in the England pack against Scotland and Ireland last season , he is picked for the Test against the South Africans four days later . |
| 23 | He looks likely to run in Doncaster 's Flamborough Head Novices Hurdle tomorrow though do not be surprised if he is rerouted for the Grade 2 Berkshire Hurdle at Newbury . |
| 24 | ‘ He is studying for the ministry . |
| 25 | Big , bearded and broad-shouldered , he is studying for the ministry , on a campus where black theology is preached and Christ is held to have advocated violence . |
| 26 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 27 | The famous cantata Quando ridi , in which a lover claims he is dying for the sake of a beautiful mouth ? |
| 28 | More sophisticated rules for smoothing these end values are available , but discussion of them is postponed for the present . |