Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group has been joined for yesterday 's deal by Montagu Private Equity and Samuel Montagu , as well as the Bank of Scotland on the debt side . |
| 2 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 3 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 4 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 5 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 6 | Regulations are given for both normal ( seminal and menstrual ) and abnormal , possibly malignant , discharges . |
| 7 | When empirical mode explanations are given for naturally occurring causal sequences , causes do precede their effects , as was the case in the artificial experimental sequences . |
| 8 | More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor . |
| 9 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 10 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 11 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 12 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 13 | A golf course development threatened the landscape but plans have been withdrawn for now |
| 14 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 15 | This did not prove a problem because since 1828 Stephenson 's had been building for abroad . |
| 16 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 17 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 18 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 19 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 20 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 21 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |
| 23 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |
| 24 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 25 | The resignations occurred amid continuing controversy over the handling of the security services by Richard Sacher , the federal Minister of the Interior [ see p. 37382 ] , who had been criticized for not proceeding rapidly enough with the removal of StB officers from the ministry . |
| 26 | As a large consumer of Middle Eastern oil , Japan had been criticized for not making a fuller contribution to the international effort against Iraq . |
| 27 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 28 | Problem behaviours ( B ) are examined for regularly occurring antecedents ( A ) and consequences ( C ) . |
| 29 | I waited ; a pick-up had been arranged for 5.30pm and I was certain it would not fail me . |
| 30 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |