Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] is [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His note on the beast of Chapter Seventeen of Revelation , the beast which does n't exist and still has to appear and is destined for perdition , is ‘ generalhuman ’ — the word he coined for Notes from Underground and incidentally never used again in his fiction . |
| 2 | The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job . |
| 3 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 4 | More recently , Bloch 's work ( 1975 ) on political language and oratory has provided evidence of ways in which speech is formalised and is used for functions which Goody attributes solely to writing . |
| 5 | Each cylinder head ( ‘ pot ’ ) is individually cleaned and is readied for its own route through the system . |
| 6 | The meaning is not explained but is left for the listeners to work out for themselves . |