Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 2 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 3 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 4 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |
| 5 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 6 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 7 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 8 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 9 | Present employment law restricts the effect of such a covenant in a service agreement , but if inserted in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement , it is more likely to be enforceable. ( 3 ) The service agreement will be for a fixed term so that the managers are locked in for that period . |
| 10 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 11 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 12 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 13 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 14 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 15 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 16 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 17 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 18 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 19 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 20 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 21 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 22 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 23 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 24 | Thereafter , it is slightly intimidating when subjects are set down for each day 's debate , and we feel a little restricted in moving beyond the sphere of the Ministers on the Front Bench . |
| 25 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 26 | Certain requirements are laid down for these various legislative measures , some in the Treaty itself and others in instruments of lower rank . |
| 27 | In addition rituals and procedures are laid down for those who have for a variety of reasons become ‘ unclean ’ , and so have become cut off from the rest of the community . |
| 28 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 29 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 30 | If footswitching could be sorted out for these then the covers and pub band scene could well be awash with Marshall S80s . |