Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present study no attempt has been made to account for senescence , because the amount of dead material is small . |
| 2 | The current study , restricted to the geology of a single country , has identified four relevant theses from American universities during the period , but no attempt has been made to search for theses on Scottish geology produced in France , Germany , or any other country , because it is felt that : |
| 3 | The GLOBAL method has been applied to solve for porosity , water saturation and the complex lithology . |
| 4 | Another local player , Alison Finnegan , has been selected to play for Lancashire fourths . |
| 5 | Each part of the company has been asked to look for ways of doing more , with less , and the performance improvements now happening all over the company are starting to feed through to the bottom line . |
| 6 | He blames the crisis on the fact that the museum has been forced to pay for warders out of its own budget , which has meant that the sum of DM300,000 ( £103,000 ; $186,000 ) per year earmarked for acquisitions has been virtually used up . |
| 7 | The hotel has been ordered to apply for approval to fly the flag , or take it down . |
| 8 | Since 1984 the NCB has been required to apply for planning permission in the same way as other mineral operators . |
| 9 | Evans , missing for over a season after failing to agree a contract with Saints , has been caught playing for Grenoble against Toulon . |
| 10 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |
| 11 | The authority says dealing with the problems caused by the squatters wasted money that ought to have been spent caring for patients . |
| 12 | The reason is that s.2(3) provides that , for the purposes of s.2(1) ( b ) in this situation only , the creditor is deemed to have been induced to wait for payment . |
| 13 | The most dramatic breakthrough came in 1970 as Courtaulds , the textile giant , was upgrading its machinery and selling off cheaply equipment which had been built to last for years . |
| 14 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 15 | The peace plan , which would allow for republics to declare independence , had been amended to allow for republics to form a common state , the economy of which could be organized on non-market lines ; the article granting autonomy to the ( currently Serbian-controlled ) provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina was deleted . |
| 16 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 17 | The Guardian of April 18 reported that nearly 2,000 state-controlled companies had been forced to file for bankruptcy after an April 16 deadline for the repayment of their debts . |
| 18 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 19 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 20 | Of the furniture , one of the rare disappointments ( if you can call it that ) was the $825,000 ( £458,300 ) sale of an important Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bureau plat , around 1710 , attributed to André-Charles Boulle , that had been estimated to sell for $1–1.5 million . |
| 21 | Worse was to follow , for they were taken by bus to Takali where 261 Squadron had been ordered to prepare for departure to the Middle East , 249 being the unit 's relief- and they were ordered to take 249 's new Hurricanes with them , leaving most of their own well-worn machines behind . |
| 22 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 23 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 24 | In Britain , for example , the evolving structure of the financial markets has been characterised by both processes of deregulation and reregulation : the former , in that barriers which impede competition and choice have been discarded ; and the latter , in the sense that new regulatory measures have been adopted to cater for problems arising from structural changes . |
| 25 | I therefore pass to examine further — still in an entirely simplistic frame of mind — other theories which have been advanced to account for inflation . |
| 26 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 27 | Veevers ( 1984 ) provides a comprehensive background to the history of the eastern Australian margin while Bishop ( 1988 ) reviews the various models that have been proposed to account for uplift . |
| 28 | Traffic wardens and police patrols have been told to watch for motorists who might attempt to break the rules . |