Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 2 | Both had been dismissed from the Army for involvement in a previous attempt in May 1988 . |
| 3 | References are given in the text for specific matters such as the glass transition and time-temperature superposition . |
| 4 | Recommended levels of lighting are given in the Code for Interior Lighting ( Illuminating Engineering Society , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Further details are given in the prospectus for mature students . |
| 6 | These and other publications about the University and its facilities are listed on the Request for Further Information form at the back of the prospectus . |
| 7 | A housemaid had been disinterred from the past for the occasion . |
| 8 | An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University . |
| 9 | She had been placed in the back for comfort , or so he said , but Jenna had not been fooled . |
| 10 | The search for a complete grammar of English has been likened to the search for the Holy Grail ( Jensen & Heidorn , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Nutritional experts have been criticized in the past for expressing themselves so strongly on this point , but they are unrepentant . |
| 12 | The plans are examined by the council for compliance with the Building Regulations , and if everything is in order you will receive an Approval Notice in due course , which you can then file away with your deeds . |
| 13 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 14 | In the context both of the discussion of devolution to Scotland and Wales and of the consideration of the reorganization of local government , some attention has been given to the case for regional government in England . |
| 15 | Dorset SSD director Robin Se-Queira , who attended a national conference last week , hopes local authorities will earmark funds out of their community care grant for drug and alcohol care , though no extra funds have been given by the government for this new responsibility . |
| 16 | Readers are referred to the bibliography for further sources of information on this subject . |
| 17 | By phrasing questions in different ways , inconsistencies are exposed without the need for having a detailed knowledge of a particular technique . |
| 18 | Both cheeses are slightly unusual in as much as they are made with cooked curds that have been heated in the whey for about 30min before being drained . |
| 19 | Seats in Bloomiehall Park No response has been received to the request for seats and an improved play area . |
| 20 | Seats in Bloomiehall Park No response has been received to the request for seats and an improved play area . |
| 21 | Delegates were informed that an encouraging number of responses had already been received to the search for sponsoring organisations , and there was every prospect that the chair would be established in 1992 . |
| 22 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 23 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 24 | South African all-rounder David Callaghan , 27 , who missed most of last season fighting cancer , has been included in the squad for the first four of the seven one-day internationals against India . |
| 25 | These values are substituted into the expression for At and the results are tabulated below : These results illustrate two important general points . |
| 26 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 27 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 28 | Phillip Hutton of Knock and Sammy Moore of Willowfield are included in the team for the first time , while dropped from last year are John Nutt ( Pickie ) , Bertie Nixon ( Willowfield ) , Roy McCune ( Ballymena ) and Stan Espie ( Willowfield ) . |
| 29 | The incentive to develop the mechanical clock may well have been fostered by the need for it in medieval monasteries , where punctuality was a virtue that was rigorously insisted on and late arrival at divine service or meals was punished . |
| 30 | A REPORT urging that premature babies should be allowed to die by neglect has been attacked by the society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) . |