Example sentences of "is [verb] for by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 2 | For example , the declining firm needs an annual dividend yield of 20 per cent to compensate for the capital loss of 5 per cent per annum , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a dividend yield of only 2.66 per cent , but this is compensated for by an average annual growth in the share price of 12.34 per cent . |
| 3 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 4 | ‘ Every pupil at Kidminster Green is cared for by a personal tutor who remains with the tutor group throughout the pupil 's school career . |
| 5 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 6 | Control of company actions is provided for by a general meeting of shareholders . |
| 7 | Unless an appeal under the Act is provided for by the particular section , or a right of appeal is available derivatively from another section , any appeal is incompetent ; e.g. 5.64 , extension of permitted hours ; Sloan v. North East Fife District Council Licensing Board , 1978 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 62 . |
| 8 | The higher death benefit before retirement is allowed for by an equivalent reduction in retirement benefit . |
| 9 | Weight is crucial to planes and spacecraft so the expense is paid for by the extra detail it provides . |
| 10 | A taste for the exotic is catered for by a spectacular range of orchids from a nursery in Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | Largely the difference is accounted for by a dramatic decrease in child mortality in the modern Western world , due to vast improvements in hygiene , protection against infective disease and plentiful food . |
| 12 | Erm I think I 'm right in saying that the difference on a hundred percent migration between the House Builders Federation and the County Council , is accounted for by the technical differences that we 've talked about this morning , one thousand six hundred . |
| 13 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 14 | This difference is accounted for by the younger average age of the snowball sample . |