Example sentences of "be [verb] for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 3 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 4 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 5 | The resulting strings produced by applying the rules are searched for in the lexicon in the normal way . |
| 6 | Such betrayals , when not over-taxing the as yet limited mental resources of the infant , are compensated for by the acquisition of new much praised skills and satisfactions . |
| 7 | To some extent they are compensated for by the availability of a wealth of clinical material , and by the experience of working in urban and rural communities . |
| 8 | You simply have to weigh up your personal circumstances and what you are looking for from the job , keeping in mind any long-term plans that you may have for your future career development . |
| 9 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 10 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 11 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 12 | Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards . |
| 13 | That that 's all we 're looking for at the moment . |
| 14 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 15 | Police have released a description of the man they 're looking for in the Tewkesbury attack . |
| 16 | What you 're , what you 're aiming for in the future ? |
| 17 | This means that they should be clear about what they are to look for in the performance and how they are to judge these points . |
| 18 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |
| 19 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 20 | Up to 15 people with brain injuries are cared for at the centre each day and the main feature of the extension will be a large activity room . |
| 21 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 22 | Since then he has been cared for at the Airedale General Hospital . |
| 23 | For the last hundred years the picturesque ruins of the Augustinian nunnery ( founded around 1200 ) have been cared for by the Iona Cathedrals Trust . |
| 24 | In recent years prisons have accumulated increasing numbers of mentally disordered people who at one time would probably been cared for in the old asylums . |
| 25 | Disabled people are provided for through the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons ' ( Northern Ireland ) Act ( 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Some of the features of the legal model which we have depicted such as the power of the shareholders to dismiss the directors and the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors are provided for by the law rather than by the articles of association . |
| 27 | Pensions for employees of the Scottish Transport Group , with the exception of some Caledonian MacBrayne employees , are provided for by the group 's pension schemes . |
| 28 | Registered Designs are provided for by the Registered Designs Act 1949 , amended by the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 29 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 30 | One is mounted on top of the power supply , and two are spoken for by the floppy and hard disk drives , so you 'd be in trouble if you wanted to fit more than two peripherals . |