Example sentences of "are [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large number of students are enrolled for City and Guilds and RSA certificates . |
| 2 | Some 13,650 full-time and part-time students are enrolled for courses at all levels of higher education , from part-time certificate programmes to doctoral studies . |
| 3 | Here the ewes ( female sheep ) are gathered for lambing and later for shearing wool and for dipping to control insect pests . |
| 4 | For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power . |
| 5 | Equally , you may have a right of redress if you are dismissed for failure to comply with an unjust order . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ There is an emphasis today on matching cultural and racial backgrounds when children are placed for adoption or fostering . |
| 7 | No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s . |
| 8 | Success rates are given for tasks taken as representative of the criterion concerned . |
| 9 | In the following account , details are given for preparation of high quality thin sections by automatic and semi-automatic means . |
| 10 | Possible mathematical experiences are given for activities involving each item . |
| 11 | One source of these surplus calories excreted is obviously the non-digestible cell-wall material which forms much of the dietary fibre itself : This is taken into account when calorie figures are given for carbohydrate foods . |
| 12 | The Voigt sums are given for comparison . |
| 13 | If credits are given for completion , students are motivated . |
| 14 | It is also useful to demonstrate the choice you are given for data entry in many Windows boxes . |
| 15 | On the CDC 6600 computer certain values of the floating-point exponent are set aside to represent zero , infinite , and " indefinite " operand values , and rules are given for arithmetic operations on these quantities ( for example , the difference of two infinite operands is indefinite ) . |
| 16 | These are given for illustration only , since in practice the first would almost certainly be classified under 624.151 along with all the other books on foundation soils and engineering geology . |
| 17 | The score is obtained by finding the most abnormal value for physiological indices in the 24 h after admission to ICU ; additional points are given for age , chronic health status , and renal function . |
| 18 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 19 | Telephone numbers are given for information and stockist details |
| 20 | The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront , and disused industrial areas are favoured for development . |
| 21 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 22 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 23 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 24 | All these files are listed for cursor selection if the file is in the current directory . |
| 25 | Those of you who are listed for morning 'phone calls from the wardens — please notify them if you are going on holiday . |
| 26 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 27 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 28 | Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon 's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling . |
| 29 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
| 30 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |