Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 2 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 3 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 4 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 5 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 6 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 7 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 8 | Underwater there are hidden dangers for river-life . |
| 9 | Correll thinks herbicides , more potent than they are given credit for , may be to blame . |
| 10 | But they , and the set-piece speeches to the party faithful , have also done more for Tory morale than they are given credit for . |
| 11 | Whilst these may be significantly cheaper in terms of cost and so written off as mere toys they are often far more capable of producing simple documents than they are given credit for . |
| 12 | He thinks people 's musical perceptions are wider than they are given credit for . |
| 13 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 14 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 15 | Under LMS , where governing bodies are given responsibility for matters that affect health and safety , they will be potentially liable for any offences against the 1974 Health and Safety Act caused by their decisions . |
| 16 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 17 | The " game " is one in which the people on the outside are given responsibility for those on the inside , crossing the circle with their eyes closed . |
| 18 | The low through each event and day is here clearly expressed as the texts are given settings for the people as well as choirs . |
| 19 | Five other countries " Russia , Poland , Pakistan , Iraq and Ireland " are given awards for being " tragic examples of countries unresponsive or actively opposed to the desires of women and men for greater control over their reproductive lives " . |
| 20 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 21 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 22 | It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers . |
| 23 | Others are using multimedia for building planning and maintenance ; Andersen Consulting in the US is developing a database which contains video images showing the location of power cables , water pipes and telephone lines . |
| 24 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 25 | We advise groups or individuals that are producing work for publication to consult with others engaged in the same activity . |
| 26 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 27 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 28 | The arrow icon is for the select tool for choosing the objects you want to work on and the other seven tools in this top group are drawing tools for adding text , polygons , rectangles , lines , ellipses and freehand drawings to a slide . |
| 29 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 30 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |