Example sentences of "of [pron] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of these are elderly women , many of whom are caring for siblings . |
| 2 | There are four full-time Research Officers and the rest of the work is done by 13 research assistants , some of whom are part-time and most of whom are studying for PhDs . |
| 3 | The rest of the time he caught snapper or conch or lobster , and brooded over the souls of his ramshackle family ; each of whom was named for a different book in the Bible . |
| 4 | She posed for photographs with six winners of the George Medal and a holder of the George Cross , all of whom were honoured for their work in dismantling bombs . |
| 5 | The prop-room became crowded with elderly men ; stage-hands and fly-men , none of whom were needed for this particular production but who were there just the same , heating cans of baked beans in a saucepan on the fire . |
| 6 | ( 1986 ) , in their study Who Needs Care ? examined child care decision making in two English local authorities which involved 361 children from 266 families , all of whom were considered for care during 1980–1 . |
| 7 | Dr Crockett , Mr Michael Bewick , a leading kidney transplant surgeon , and Mr Michael Joyce , a urologist at Guy 's Hospital , deny professional misconduct over their involvement in transplanting kidneys from four living Turks , all of whom were paid for the organs . |
| 8 | By 1972 Hatfield had over 1800 full-time students and 1000 part-time students , a quarter of whom were working for bachelors or masters degrees and the others for higher technician or professional qualifications . |
| 9 | ‘ As a driver who is generally considered as being more level-headed than most , I want to know whether there is any danger of me being banned for two months if I have an accident here at Phoenix . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 11 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 12 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 13 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 14 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 15 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 16 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 17 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 18 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 19 | It is up to each individual union to deal with this problem , but the obvious right course for all of them is to compensate for broken time — and this included the RFU . |
| 20 | More sophisticated rules for smoothing these end values are available , but discussion of them is postponed for the present . |
| 21 | And one of them is waiting for you . |
| 22 | The two of them were bound for Templeton 's Christmas dance which was being held in the St Andrew 's Halls . |
| 23 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of them were accounted for , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Of greater significance than the numbers of schools established in 1850 to 1860 is the fact that some of them were founded for the express purpose of teaching deaf children through the Oral System . |
| 26 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 27 | One of them was meant for him . |
| 28 | She had discovered that it was n't a proper job ( as she called it to herself ) since none of them was paid for going there or being on the rota . |
| 29 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 30 | Staff and students are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that all books on loan to them from the Library are kept securely , in good condition , away from harmful environments , and readily accessible to Library staff in the event of their being required for other readers . |