Example sentences of "being [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being intended for private use , the test aircraft had normal hinged doors rather than the sliding option and sat rather rakishly on low skids . |
| 2 | He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) . |
| 3 | Seven hundred and forty four women , patients at this surgery in Gateshead are being recalled for new smear tests . |
| 4 | Children being punished for acceptable behaviour . |
| 5 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 6 | Such tests are currently used only for research and very specialised purposes , although tests for the virus itself are being developed for commercial use . |
| 7 | the fish-shop being swabbed for early closing , |
| 8 | Their opponents , an experienced club side , are all being reported for violent conduct . |
| 9 | Computed tomography of the gall bladder was initially done on all patients but latterly , only patients who were being considered for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy ( patients with one to three gall stones which were less than 3 cm in diameter ) were scanned to determine stone density ( calcification ) . |
| 10 | A cold , wet June which kept bees confined to their hives is being blamed for poor pod set on spring beans . |
| 11 | Those highly accurate perishable goods — such as salad items — that have always been most commonly wasted are now being targeted for special attention . |
| 12 | The stimulus plan contained $207 million for NSF in the current year , nearly half of the increase of 15 per cent being sought for fiscal year 1994 , which begins on 1 October ; without that running start , Congress is extremely unlikely to give NSF such a large increase in the face of pressure to reduce the federal deficit and to fund other domestic programmes . |
| 13 | An exchange can publish the quotes that are being made for future business , or the price at which historic business has been done . |
| 14 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 15 | These arguments are given some strength when we realise that the claims being made for English language by Lyons are remarkably similar to those being made for other aspects of English in general , or of English class culture in particular , by other writers . |
| 16 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 17 | Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 18 | The author of the Saturday article thought that the chances of the four schemes being selected for detailed examination were very remote and was probably surprised when the judges awarded prizes to all four , albeit rather low prizes . |
| 19 | Record is also being grown for early lifting in the coastal areas of Cornwall and Wales . |
| 20 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |
| 21 | Here we look more closely at some of the building blocks in the creation of the sex beast or , more accurately , the way that suitable building material is being shaped for possible use if an opportunity occurs . |
| 22 | He and his friends had collaborated with the Japs , but had quickly seen that the independence granted to Burma was fictitious and that the Burmese people were being exploited for Japanese imperialism . |
| 23 | The potential for further plays is being evaluated for future drilling . |
| 24 | Much of the planned research involves fieldwork based on samples of manufacturing plants in the countries to be compared , the plants being matched for industrial sector and size employment . |
| 25 | This Twin Squirrel helicopter is identical to the one being manufactured for joint use by the Northamptonshire , Leicestershire and Warwickshire forces . |
| 26 | I slid away , another shadow in my dark costume , and made a wide half-circle to an unoccupied area being prepared for new landing patches . |
| 27 | This excess of fear has been displayed by weanling Thoroughbreds being prepared for public auction . |
| 28 | The third was that when Mrs Thatcher concluded that the way was being prepared for full membership of the EMS , she was able to destroy the shadowing strategy by loudly denying its existence . |
| 29 | Early in January 1758 , however , Lieutenant Home 's brother , David Home of Wedderburn , complained that the promise had not been kept and that the lieutenant had been ordered to join a fireship at Spithead which was being prepared for foreign service . |
| 30 | In such circumstances an incomplete service is being offered for social work as a service . |