Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An order had been placed with her for ‘ Charlie ’ — a code word for cocaine — in a call made through the main Palace switchboard . |
| 2 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 3 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 4 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 5 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that 's the kindest thing that 's been said to me for ages , Ben dear . |
| 7 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 8 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 9 | You 've been bothered by something for ages and just happen to mention it somebody as you 're walking by , Oh yes . |
| 10 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 11 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 12 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 13 | If your employee has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week , regardless of the number of hours worked , she is eligible for lower rate SMP . |
| 14 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
| 15 | Has she been employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the QW ? |
| 16 | A later commentator says that the plan " had been cherished by them for years " and it could very well have its roots in the Caledonian Press experiment , which had ended a mere eight years earlier . |
| 17 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 18 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 19 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 20 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 21 | CHARLES CLIFFE needs little introduction having been known to you for his splendid writing and demonstrations . |
| 22 | My theories with it , my er great cynical look at it is , they they need a hundred offenders and a hundred non offenders to be referred to them for these tests . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 24 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 25 | so when would the first figures be given by you for the purpose of printing , approximately |
| 26 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 27 | The law provides that the business of your employer and that of any associated employer are to be treated as one for redundancy law purposes , if appropriate . |
| 28 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 29 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 30 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |