Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas . |
| 2 | After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils . |
| 3 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
| 4 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 5 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 6 | The allies had to be given opportunities for glory , booty , settlements and trade in conquered lands . |
| 7 | In its post-World War II Circulars , the Department of Education stated explicitly that the children of working mothers were not to be given priority for nursery education . |
| 8 | And if you had to seek through two thousand people to find your pair of suitable parents , does that mean that — let me see — only point naught naught one of the population will be considered tit for parenthood ? |
| 9 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 10 | Under each month could be found directions for work to be done in the kitchen garden with notes on its produce , the pleasure or flower garden with plants then in flower , and the greenhouse and stove with their plants in bloom . |
| 11 | Behind them is David Mellor , soon to be appointed Minister for Fun — and later to be dubbed Figure of Fun for his fling with actress Antonia de Sancha . |
| 12 | Visitors will be charged £1.50 for admission and the Taste Sensation roadshow set off for its Blackpool location just days after being unveiled at Park Royal . |
| 13 | the appeal court dismissed the argument that the income should be deducted pound for pound from the agreed dependency . |
| 14 | The Government is hoping the BMA 's acceptance of assurances that patients will not be denied drugs for cash reasons will also end allegations that doctors will not take the elderly and chronically sick on lists because they are too expensive to treat . |
| 15 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |