Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv] for [art] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ?
5 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 .
6 ‘ We are trapped together for the day . ’
7 Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors .
8 ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two .
9 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 .
10 But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions .
17 The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people .
18 This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research .
19 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 .
20 Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships .
21 Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot .
22 ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) .
28 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 .
29 These have been mentioned in passing in the previous section , but they are summarised here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis .
30 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 .
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