Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 2 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |
| 3 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
| 4 | At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months , Palladium officials said . |
| 5 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 6 | Can I just say that in getting them , I think erm the er Lands Charity trustees are not actually obliged to report to us , and Kevin 's doing this as a matter of sort of courtesy really , because we appointed him , erm but erm erm I think it 's a subject that could well be called on for one of these sort of regular , little , important at the A G M , erm |
| 7 | Controls can be set up for most of these experiments , e.g. plant cress seed on dry blotting paper as well as wet , so that children begin to realise that it really is the water that is responsible for the change . |
| 8 | For much the same reason as suggested in the last paragraph , this seems a course of action which in practice would be ruled out for many of them by financial constraints : so again , for many , just wishful thinking . |
| 9 | The estimates from each department became more detailed and were spelt out for each of the future years . |
| 10 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 11 | EP were bundled out for 120 in 50 of their 55 overs , as Corrie van Zyl took 4 for 24 , and Cronje 's Free State raced to victory in 33 overs with six wickets in hand . |
| 12 | When the Kiwis were bowled out for 102 in their first innings the writing was on the wall . |
| 13 | Bowdon Vale were bowled out for 82 by visitors Oakmere , Paul Valentine taking 7–30 . |
| 14 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 15 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 16 | So Gloria 's put in for one of them new pre-fabs . ’ |
| 17 | The third sitting member , Alan Montgomery , made it clear that he would not be running , but Mr McGimpsey was squeezed out for one of the other two Unionist nominations . |
| 18 | Analysis of covariance for possible factors affecting mean hearing thresholds was carried out for each of the four different types of ear . |
| 19 | The original base mapping was carried out for most of Scotland between 1865 and the start of the First World War . |
| 20 | Wenceslas Square was laid out for one of Bohemia 's most attractive rulers , King Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor , who was born and died in Prague . |
| 21 | No n Well yes a lot of it was brushwood or the or erm branches of the birch trees that was that was laid out for that Above the stones and then you put that above . |
| 22 | Team manager Noel Murphy faces the press flanked by captain Phil Danaher ( left ) , who was ruled out for much of the tour by a knee injury , and coach Ciaran Fitzgerald . |
| 23 | Puddle was run out for 97 after figuring in a third wicket stand of 181 with opener Andrew Harris which provided the platform for Wales 's impressive success . |
| 24 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |