Example sentences of "for [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , all the unit 's leads except for were soldered to the upper side of a separate 24-pin socket which was then plugged into the ROM location . |
| 2 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 3 | I ought therefore to be grateful for being disorientated by the unfamiliar and the chance to focus the innocent eye . |
| 4 | In 1926 over a dozen Constituency Labour Parties were disbanded for accepting Communists into individual membership and for being controlled by the Leftwing Movement . |
| 5 | Korn/Ferry , whose world fee income achieved a fivefold increase between 1977 and 1986 , and is confidently expected to pass the $100m. mark by the 1990s , is sometimes criticised in the USA for being dominated by the central management , for its ‘ big factory ’ image where the seniors do the selling and the juniors do the work , and it has also suffered much at the pen of headhunting newshound Jim Kennedy , who produces Executive Recruiter News . |
| 6 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |