Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each . |
| 2 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 3 | Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse . |
| 4 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 5 | ‘ Scientific management 's ’ mechanistic and materialistic model of the individual has been criticized for taking no account of other motives for work and , by implication , the diverse interests of which people might be conscious as members of groups and wish to protect and advance through group action . |
| 6 | Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social . |
| 7 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 8 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 9 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 10 | Nearly a century and a half later Alexander II might have been forgiven for feeling an even greater degree of disappointment . |
| 11 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 12 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 13 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 14 | Frosts and flooding are blamed for causing the damage on more than three thousand miles of the county 's roads . |
| 15 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 16 | CLEVELAND Ambulance has been attacked for charging a pensioner £162 for a 36-mile journey . |
| 17 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
| 18 | In addition , its oil exploration activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been blamed for damaging the hunting economy of the Waorani , Quichua , Siona , Secoya and Cofan Indians , by driving away wildlife and polluting soil and water . |
| 19 | A flying instructor has been blamed for causing a helicopter crash . |
| 20 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 21 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 22 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 23 | The flights have been blamed for disturbing the game on which the Innu depend , and there are reports that pregnant women have miscarried as a result of the noise . |
| 24 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 25 | Milton 's Paradise Lost or Spenser 's Faerie Queene are applauded for bringing a sophisticated use of classical epic conventions into English , creating national works which stand comparison with those of antiquity . |
| 26 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 27 | He has been fined for exposing a wrong that England and Pakistan seemed happier keeping under the carpet . |
| 28 | He 'd been fined for having a dangerous vehicle . |
| 29 | If your plants , cordon or bush varieties , are destined for enhancing the patio — in pots , growing bags or hanging baskets — consign them to their containers about two weeks later . |
| 30 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |