Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 In Niemeyers , for example , the company language is English which is used for 70% of all non-Dutch communication ( with French and German each approximately 15% to make up the rest ) .
2 Parallel projects to this one are planned for several other European countries .
3 Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child .
4 Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child .
5 This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’
6 This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine .
7 Therefore no more is needed for an event to be an effect , at least in so far as relations of conditionality are concerned , than that the event was such that another one was required for it .
8 The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 .
9 When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years .
10 First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility .
11 Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million , with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers .
12 Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts .
13 This objection can only be evaded by finding a different account of the justification of false beliefs from that which is offered for true ones .
14 Part of the trouble was that the information which colleges needed for their own purpose was on a scale different from that which was called for by local authorities and by the DES .
15 Further deletions which leave less than 90bp of the promoter result in a very low level of expression , suggesting the presence of a basic promoter element between -90 and -70 which is required for expression in this heterologous cell type .
16 The staff drifted in slowly , and finally at around ten-thirty everyone was accounted for .
17 Can you possibly remember how much you were paid for your apprenticeship with Amos ?
18 Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds .
19 In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones .
20 After being arrested by the Securitate , Lupescu is dragged in chains before Ceauşescu , who demands to know how much he is paid for his jokes .
21 A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview .
22 Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty .
23 The lorry driver and a woman pedestrian were treated for shock , and heat-seeking cameras searched the rubble for other casualties , but Cornwall fire brigade said later everyone was accounted for .
24 At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times .
25 In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course .
26 Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing .
27 It was possible we were headed for the marshes .
28 No , its not being in concert , that Jason , that something being taken for years , it must of been , Jason or whatever he 's name is .
29 Some of them more than that one was advertised for .
30 That one was taken for us at Kristof Laszlo 's studio — you 'd have to ask him about it . ’
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