Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 If he wins a subsequent bout also by disqualification , then he must be withdrawn for his own safety , since it is obvious that , in this tournament at least , he is not protecting himself adequately .
2 And now we 've all managed to carve out or own identities , and to be recognized for our own distinctive bodies of work . ’
3 The Mutawas informed the physician that the new mother would be removed that day and taken away to be stoned for her crime against God .
4 We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services .
5 So dairy farmers look likely to be gainers under the new regime , particularly as several new groups will be competing for their milk .
6 Only she , of all the women , seemed not to be competing for his attention .
7 Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern .
8 If you know the length per ball or cone of the yarns that you will be using for your garment , you can enter this information in the ADJUST section .
9 Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ?
10 He was not under suspicion at the time , although he was about to be dismissed for his indiscretions and outrageous behaviour .
11 But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds .
12 Sammy Wilson , the DUP press officer , dissociated the party from Seawright 's remarks : ‘ The DUP has always made it crystal clear — as Protestants we believe in civil and religious liberty for all men , and no one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs .
13 He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile .
14 and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes .
15 All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability .
16 Several other individual and household characteristics could be examined for their influence upon probabilities of early childhood survival .
17 In addition , if data allowed , certain types of community level characteristics might also usefully be examined for their impact upon child mortality and morbidity .
18 He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped .
19 Jovellanos , in his campaign for technical education and the useful arts as a means of raising living standards , may be forgiven for his attacks on the dead languages .
20 The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs .
21 The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 .
22 By 1798 he was already comfortably settled as a linen draper within the hallowed precincts of the City of London , and had the fact entered in the commercial directories accordingly ; Titford and Barwick might be consulted for your drapery needs at 77 Bishopsgate Within , situated at the end of Suttons Court opposite the Marine Society Offices .
23 England 's supporters will be punished for their team 's success in the European Championship .
24 One example of such confusion is the doctrine of diminished responsibility : the idea that persons should not be punished for their actions because they were under stress .
25 What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ?
26 It is for this reason that in so much of the literature and documentation dealing with the justification of a war emphasis was placed upon the enemy as a rebel who must be punished for his acts of infidelity or treason .
27 If he answers , he may condemn himself out of his own mouth ; if he refuses he may be punished for his refusal : on this , see Glanville Williams , The Proof of Guilt , 3rd ed. ( 1963 ) , pp. 52–53 .
28 If he answers , he may condemn himself out of his own mouth ; if he refuses he may be punished for his refusal …
29 At his trial last year he was told he should be punished for his wicked driving .
30 If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary .
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