Example sentences of "[adv] being [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |
| 3 | Hotel rooms will be smaller than their US equivalents , the park itself is on a smaller scale and , although plans are already being drawn up for Phase Two , incorporating a European MGM Studio theme park , the initial range of attractions wo n't rival Disney World in Florida . |
| 4 | A package is already being worked out for you by our legal department which should soften the blow considerably , and after all there has been no lasting query raised against the quality of your work ; the suggestion that your ideas need checking — ’ |
| 5 | Today , in the extremely unlikely event of its ever being put up for sale , it would certainly fetch several million US dollars on the open market . |
| 6 | When you have travelled half across the world , with the background of the man you are going to meet gradually being filled in for you , a picture of him inevitably forms in the mind . |
| 7 | Yesterday , the superlatives were still being tossed around for Arazi , who won impressively at Saint-Cloud on Tuesday to confirm his passage to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby , on May 2 . |
| 8 | THE dress Pretty Woman Julia Roberts ordered for her cancelled wedding to Brat Packer Kiefer Sutherland could end up being auctioned off for charity . |
| 9 | To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night . |
| 10 | A 100MHz HyperSparc is now being talked up for the end of next year . |
| 11 | With the mines now being put up for private operation , a great deal will depend on how sincere British Coal is about helping the new licensees to make a go of it . |
| 12 | But Mary was not actually being singled out for special treatment or favour , except in so far as her own attractiveness and charm marked her out . |
| 13 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |