Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 2 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 3 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 4 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 5 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 6 | These are intended chiefly for the research worker , but undergraduates will find the periodicals referring to their particular interest of increasing value as the course progresses . |
| 7 | ‘ We are trapped together for the day . ’ |
| 8 | Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors . |
| 9 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 10 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 11 | Sections 1 and 2 are targeted specifically for the LIFESPAN manager , with section 3 intended for LIFESPAN users who wish to access the transferred data . |
| 12 | Herbal remedies are usually dispensed as tinctures , either singly or in various combinations which are prepared specifically for the patient on the basis of their complaints . |
| 13 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 14 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 15 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
| 16 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 17 | They are not corridors , as , of course , the exigencies of local traffic scarcely render that sort of coach desirable , but are built specially for the service between Watford and Euston , and Watford and Broad Street . |
| 18 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |
| 19 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 20 | Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions . |
| 21 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 22 | Traditional Campa agriculture is based on garden or chacra plots which are used mainly for the cultivation of manioc , although plantains , bananas , sweet potatoes and beans are also grown on a smaller scale . |
| 23 | Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships . |
| 24 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
| 25 | ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future . |
| 26 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 27 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 28 | As we have seen , he argues that trade union government will be relatively centralised where agreements are drawn up for an industry or an entire country , and will be relatively decentralised where they are regionally- or plant-based . |
| 29 | But before the collecting boxes are handed round for the benefit of the new but impecunious union , there are some familiar figures , South African and otherwise , from rugby 's political elite to be seen . |
| 30 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |