Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , while being transported by wind , it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition . |
| 2 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 3 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 4 | MS-DOS and Windows requesters supporting TCP/IP networks have been added to InterBase for third parties and developers interested in SQL access to InterBase . |
| 5 | Such suicides are nearly always preventable and many of those in despair should have been moved to hospital for treatment or received active medical help while in prison . |
| 6 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 7 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 9 | James Terry Roach , electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 , had been sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 10 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 11 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 12 | The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported on Jan. 14 that a former Soviet diplomat had recently been sentenced to death for passing Soviet defence secrets to the United States . |
| 13 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 14 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 15 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 16 | Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse . |
| 17 | A MAN has been sentenced to death for throwing sulphuric acid on a girlfriend who split up with him , an official newspaper reported yesterday . |
| 18 | If you 're looking to history for inspiration or entertainment , or an indecently brilliant rock ‘ n ’ roll story , then comes feast on ‘ Bodies ’ , ‘ Anarchy ’ , ‘ Problems ’ , the finer recorded works of Ye Olde Sexe Pistols . |
| 19 | 'Right , I 'll help you — you 're having an affair with a man' — I said no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — nearly there ; ‘ you 're going to prison for something or other ’ — no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — well not quite the lollipop lady but a lady all the same . |
| 20 | £40 per day , tax-free , as soon as you 're admitted to hospital for a period of up to one year . |
| 21 | In the case of hominids , this has traditionally been attributed to selection for hunting efficiency in the Pliocene . |
| 22 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 23 | Lorries , buses and taxis move freely along the Beira road , as well as on secondary roads that had been closed to traffic for years . |
| 24 | It runs off a normal car battery and has ample power to drive the punt at a greater rate of knots than you are likely to need , unless you are going to troll for pike ; and then you would be better using a boat rather than a punt . |
| 25 | Furthermore , an oversell leaves the candidate wondering what kind of people they are going to work for . |
| 26 | If you are going to work for somebody else , then you 'll need to prepare a record of your abilities and experience . |
| 27 | A woman with cancer has been summoned to court for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of just over fourteen pounds . |
| 28 | Yet the amphibia as a whole represent an early level of terrestrial organization ; they are tied to water for reproduction , because their larvae have to pass through a wholly subaqueous phase , and desiccation of the adult is a constant danger . |
| 29 | However that myth has been laid to rest for good in Germany 's pedestrianised city centres and unsurprisingly it has proved unfounded in the experimental areas too . |
| 30 | With the retirement of Lord Denning , it seems that the issue has been laid to rest for some time , since his successor , Lord Donaldson , and most of the current Lords Justices of Appeal do not appear to share the views of the former Master of the Rolls . |