Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We are trapped together for the day . ’ |
| 4 | Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions . |
| 12 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships . |
| 15 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
| 16 | ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 20 | These have been mentioned in passing in the previous section , but they are summarised here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis . |
| 21 | SISTERS Joyce Anderson and Jean Tebble are revving up for the start of one of the biggest fund-raising drives to be organised on Merseyside . |
| 22 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 23 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 24 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 25 | Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer . |
| 26 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 27 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 28 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 29 | It has the merit of simplicity and responds adequately to the desire of States to maintain control over purely domestic transactions , in that the laws of a State are enacted primarily for the benefit of its own residents , not for those situated abroad . |
| 30 | A rattlesnake 's fangs are neatly folded away when not in use but are swung forward for the strike . |