Example sentences of "be [verb] for the " in BNC.

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31 No systematic survey of vegetation , habitat , or species losses due to agricultural development has been undertaken for the whole of the UK uplands , nor is one planned .
32 Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office .
33 A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners .
34 MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards .
35 Sheffield Steelers are sweeping the opposition aside in their bid to gain league entry , while Trafford Metros , Medway Bears and Streatham Redskins are competing for the other vacancy .
36 At least six types of microfloppy , as the discs are called , of varying size and format are competing for the market .
37 Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme .
38 ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . )
39 For any given program there is an optimum or efficient memory usage for an environment in which many programs are competing for the limited available real memory .
40 This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house .
41 If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible .
42 A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal .
43 All had two or more close relatives who had been treated for the disease .
44 They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years .
45 The twenty-five dealers specialising in drawings and paintings are joined for the first time by Colnaghi who opened a small Paris branch in May and are keeping their exhibits a closely guarded secret .
46 I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn .
47 Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours .
48 The results of applying the market model to these data are shown in Fig. 6.7 , where the ex-post returns have been plotted against betas which have been adjusted for the changes in the cash holdings of the unit trusts : Ward and Saunders argue that these managerial decisions are particularly important in determining unit trust performance .
49 Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century .
50 Tables of mortality and morbidity values for spatial areas are apparently simple to interpret ; however , unless such data are adjusted for the age-structure of the populations of those areas , any conclusions drawn will remain questionable .
51 Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement .
52 Bello Bouba said that he was returning to join his " fellow countrymen who are struggling for the institution of a real democracy " .
53 Derrida has sometimes been criticized for the generality of phrases such as ‘ the history of the West ’ or the claim that his work involves a critique of ‘ Western metaphysics ’ .
54 While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction .
55 The Beeching proposals have been criticized for the lack of serious consideration given to the possibility of retaining many unprofitable passenger services , and the case for closure was presented in a way that prejudged the final decision .
56 Although not directly linked to the Suso affair , Lee Seung Yoon had been criticized for the country 's rising inflation and trade deficit .
57 Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary .
58 The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit .
59 Contracts have been arranged for the supply from other parts of BAe to enable the new company to operate autonomously .
60 The following CAA Safety Evenings have been arranged for the coming months :
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