Example sentences of "is be [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Power is being exercised for an improper purpose ( to regulate unfurnished property ) and power is being used unreasonably ( £6,000 might be argued to be excessive ) . |
| 2 | Planning permission is being sought for a 72,000 sq ft factory to be built by The Development Board for Rural Wales on a new six acre site in the town . |
| 3 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 4 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail . |
| 5 | Prominence , which is the basis for our sense of the particularity of a style , also provides the condition for recognition that a style is being used for a particular literary end : that it has a " value in the game " . |
| 6 | The Sydney meeting and concert is being filmed for a special video to be sold on Merseyside and across Australia . |
| 7 | The emergency services are investigating why firefighters turned up late to a mock nuclear accident.Confusion over phone lines is being blamed for a ten minute delay before the fire brigade responded . |
| 8 | The severe drought of the past three years is being blamed for a big increase in the number of houses suffering from subsidence . |