Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’
2 The majority of these are elderly women , many of whom are caring for siblings .
3 There are four full-time Research Officers and the rest of the work is done by 13 research assistants , some of whom are part-time and most of whom are studying for PhDs .
4 A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there .
5 There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes .
6 Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age .
7 All three of them are looking for work in large towns .
8 ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want .
9 Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment .
10 Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness .
11 Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies .
12 It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications .
13 Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority .
14 A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life .
15 Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand .
16 ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for .
17 Angela , would somebody from Eastenders er , provoke the kind the cash flow from the industrialists that companies that yours are looking for ?
18 We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
19 We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
20 The commonest and most important of these are pre-sentence reports ( formerly known as social inquiry reports ) , which are prepared for the court by probation officers ( or by social workers in the case of some juvenile offenders ) .
21 Whilst agreeing with the Commission about the desirability of reducing the number of crown court cases which are prepared for trial but where the defendant unexpectedly pleads guilty at the last moment , it believes that there are other ways of tackling this problem which do not pose a threat to the interests of justice .
22 From more than 80 strains , four have been singled out to be grown from seeds which are tested for protein , which helps them to withstand heat .
23 But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all .
24 standing committees which are formed for a particular purpose on a permanent basis .
25 There are special provisions for actions for personal injuries ( see below ) and automatic directions do not apply to any of the actions listed below : ( 1 ) an action for the administration of the estate of a deceased person ; ( 2 ) an Admiralty action ; ( 3 ) proceedings which are referred for arbitration whether automatically or otherwise under Ord 19 ; ( 4 ) an action arising out of a regulated consumer credit agreement within the meaning of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) an action for the delivery of goods ; ( 6 ) an action for the recovery of income tax ; ( 7 ) interpleader proceedings or an action in which an application is made for relief by way of interpleader ; ( 8 ) an action of a kind mentioned in s 66(3) of the Act ( trial by jury ) ; ( 9 ) an action for the recovery of land ; ( 10 ) a partnership action ; ( 11 ) an action to which Ord 48A applies ( patent actions heard at Edmonton County Court ) ; ( 12 ) a contentious probate action ; ( 13 ) a rent action ; ( 14 ) an action to which Ord 5 , r 5 applies ( representative proceedings ) ; ( 15 ) an action to which Ord 9 , r 3(9) applies ( admission of part of plaintiff 's claim ) ; ( 16 ) an action on a third party notice or similar proceedings under Ord 12 ; ( 17 ) an action to which Ord 47 , r 3 applies ( actions in tort between husband and wife ) ; ( 18 ) " cases " transferred from High Court .
26 It has to be stressed that this method of connection is only acceptable if the mains transformer is a type which has accurately matched secondary windings which are intended for use in this way .
27 Simple quilting or through stitching is only used on cheaper bags which are intended for summer use only .
28 Departmental Visiting Days are divided into two groups which are intended for rather different purposes :
29 The options under this index allow the manipulation of ‘ products ’ , packages of software which are intended for internal or external release to a ‘ client ’ .
30 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness , sake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven .
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