Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iliescu said that the NSF leadership had been criticized for giving in to mob rule , and that the issue , like that of the death penalty , should instead be put to a referendum . |
| 2 | Foster was punished for kicking out at the stumps during a frustrating spell at Old Trafford on Thursday . |
| 3 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 4 | As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea . |
| 5 | The second attack on SERPS comes in the form of incentives given for contracting out . |
| 6 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 7 | We hope we will be forgiven for editing out of Dr Schore 's discussion of the background to LM 's but inclusion would have meant duplication since John Tomlinson 's Dose Dilution and the LM Potencies already covers the points he makes . |
| 8 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 9 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 10 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 11 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 12 | Clause 24 and Sch 5 provide additional protection for all safety representatives against being dismissed for carrying out their health and safety duties . |
| 13 | These garments were designed for messing around in stables , not for meeting and greeting the electorate . |
| 14 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 15 | The language was incorporated into a program called Filetab , which was designed for looking up information held on file in mainframe computers . |
| 16 | But neither could you escape the fact that it seemed specifically designed for bumping off toddlers . |
| 17 | The Bernwood gate was originally designed for keeping out motorcycles and horses from the Bernwood Butterfly Trail in Oxford , while still allowing wheelchairs to pass through . |
| 18 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 19 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 20 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 21 | CONSERVATIVES in the European parliament are being blamed for holding up a plan to push through reductions of the lead content in petrol throughout the EEC . |
| 22 | Not all child-beating amounts to deliberate cruelty ( although much which is pardoned has a suspicious streak in it ! ) and a parent may in some circumstances be excused for hitting out . |
| 23 | Dealers at this firm suffered the indignity of getting illegally fined for coming in late in the mornings , even if it was only five minutes after the starting time of 8.30 a. m … |
| 24 | Southend defender Prior played a poor back pass and full-back Powell was booked for bringing down the goal-bound Thompson . |
| 25 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 26 | ‘ Punishment applied for playing up , Private Nobody , ’ said Joe . |
| 27 | Lift again the following autumn or spring and many of the stems will have rooted ; these can be detached for potting up . |
| 28 | Yes I 'm going to the street and getting an early lunch and getting myself organized for going out . |
| 29 | And when your kids are older , your home will be turned into an assault course — beds become trampolines , bookcases are ideal for mountain-climbing and stairs are made for jumping down . |
| 30 | No reparation seems to be being made for killing off the father . |