Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [subord] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vehicle emissions have been calculated as accounting for nearly 80 per cent of Mexico City 's pollution . |
| 2 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 3 | 2.45 Lord Guest thought that the dependency of £4,000 awarded by Lyell J was on the high side , but could be justified when allowing for possible future increases in earnings and for the effects of inflation . |
| 4 | The relative merits of both approaches have to be considered when opting for a solution to a particular diagnostic problem . |
| 5 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 6 | Instead , they are asking for no compulsory redundancies , and are arguing with BR management about whether this can fairly be interpreted as asking for jobs for a lifetime . |
| 7 | In this way F must soon be interpreted as standing for ‘ Fail ’ . |
| 8 | Wedding rituals in either case are a classic example of how the statements made by participants in a particular context should not be taken literally or at face value but must be interpreted as standing for something else , rich in ambiguity and figures of speech . |
| 9 | Tact must always be used when asking for identification or payment in advance . |
| 10 | An essential requirement for the control of welfare fraud is a system of national identity cards , with sealed-in number , photograph , signature and thumb-print , to be shown when applying for benefit or paid employment . |
| 11 | Even though active support for antislavery organisations declined after 1840 , leaders of abolitionist organisations wanted to be recognised as speaking for a reflexive , if latent , antislavery sentiment . |
| 12 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 13 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 14 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 15 | This debate will never be resolved unless it can firmly be established whether searching for early prostatic cancer on a community basis is worthwhile in clinical , resource , and social terms . |
| 16 | In this approach , trade unions are viewed as pushing for wage increases in an attempt to gain a bigger and fairer share of the national income for their members . |
| 17 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 18 | V. Marlow is not included in either squad despite being named as playing for both Dorning , in place of Hartley , and Twitchit , in place of Millgate . |
| 19 | Official denials by the Argentine Foreign Office were interpreted as playing for time to avoid loss of face . |
| 20 | Furthermore , out of a total number of firms on the audit register of 11,200 , only 164 were identified as acting for listed companies and a further 115 for other large organisations . |
| 21 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 22 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 23 | It is used when applying for a job . |
| 24 | Grandfather and grandson and Scotland 's 1984 Grand Slam flanker , David Leslie , are the only players to have been capped when playing for Dundee HS FP although internationalists J.S. Wilson and Chris Rea also are former pupils of the school . |
| 25 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
| 26 | The smugglers have gone , the last major encounter being in 1831 , when six coastguards armed with muskets surprised about forty smugglers at Whitsands , only one of whom was caught while heading for Sheviock . |
| 27 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 28 | Mr Brown was freed while waiting for a decision on the appeal . |
| 29 | The Howard Beach outrage , when a young black man was killed while looking for a public phone in an Italian neighbourhood , provided much of the inspiration for Spike Lee 's Do The Right Thing . |