Example sentences of "[being] [verb] for [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
| 2 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 3 | For example , will most of the workforce be short-order chefs in fast-food restaurants in the year 2000 while our manufactured products are being made for us by robots in unmanned factories ? |
| 4 | The chip is being manufactured for it by NEC . |
| 5 | Although I ca n't actually recall being prepared for it by my mother , it was only too obvious even to a child of seven years that something was pretty seriously wrong . |
| 6 | Doctors protect themselves against even the remote possibility of failing to spot a disease and being sued for it by sending their patients for every test in the book . |
| 7 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 8 | It was assumed that the Korean people would docilely accept trusteeship with decisions being taken for them by their American and Soviet masters . |