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

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1 When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things .
2 We should be using e-mail for internal communications much more widely than we do at present , in order to reduce the amount of paper we currently distribute , and to send specific messages to individuals and groups .
3 The Serbian irregulars , he says , ‘ may be waging war for some mad reasons in the name of a sick , morbid and fanatical nationalism .
4 Dr Van Vliet wants the growing countries , including Burma , China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Thailand , to be given help for artificial propagation when the trade in wild plants is banned .
5 A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service .
6 A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services .
7 The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control .
8 The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients .
9 Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts .
10 Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors .
11 A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority .
12 Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty .
13 a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas .
14 Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them .
15 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 .
16 Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy .
17 But the Prime Minister has obviously decided that having ridden the rough waters of the recession , the Chancellor should be given credit for the recovery .
18 According to Smith , Snape must nevertheless be given credit for being the first to project , and actually found , a veterinary school in this country .
19 In view of this heightened activity it is hardly surprising that medicine should be given credit for the decline in mortality ( e.g. Griffith 1926 ) .
20 It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody .
21 The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought .
22 City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance .
23 Redeployment Redeployed staff should be given consideration for vacancies occurring within any area of the Group .
24 The conscious , alert patient , such as the polio victim , must be given treatment for as long as he desires .
25 In September , members of Gwynedd County Council 's planning sub-committee recommended the company should be given permission for 15 Sundays in a year , with a time limit of two years .
26 More specifically , Hocevar requested that Yugoslavs should be given joint-responsibility for all camps which included surrendered Yugoslav nationals .
27 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 .
28 The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology .
29 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 .
30 A number of attractive prospects that have been identified will be given priority for early drilling .
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