Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correll thinks herbicides , more potent than they are given credit for , may be to blame . |
| 2 | But they , and the set-piece speeches to the party faithful , have also done more for Tory morale than they are given credit for . |
| 3 | Whilst these may be significantly cheaper in terms of cost and so written off as mere toys they are often far more capable of producing simple documents than they are given credit for . |
| 4 | He thinks people 's musical perceptions are wider than they are given credit for . |
| 5 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 6 | Under LMS , where governing bodies are given responsibility for matters that affect health and safety , they will be potentially liable for any offences against the 1974 Health and Safety Act caused by their decisions . |
| 7 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 8 | The " game " is one in which the people on the outside are given responsibility for those on the inside , crossing the circle with their eyes closed . |
| 9 | It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers . |
| 10 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 11 | We advise groups or individuals that are producing work for publication to consult with others engaged in the same activity . |
| 12 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 13 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 15 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 16 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 17 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 18 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 19 | Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene . |
| 20 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 21 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 22 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 23 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 24 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 25 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 26 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 27 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 28 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 30 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |