Example sentences of "[noun] be [be] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an excellent response to the idea of a directory of ‘ Who is now Who ’ and copies are being prepared for despatch shortly . |
| 2 | The first houses are being offered for sale at between £32,500 and £48,000 . |
| 3 | This school is now using databases in the history ( 51-56 ) , science , English and music curricula , while further databases are being planned for English and art . |
| 4 | To the other end of the musical spectrum , and three young brothers are being tipped for stardom in the world of rock music . |
| 5 | At the same time , new subjects were being urged for inclusion in the school curriculum . |
| 6 | Which animals were being hunted for food , and which were domesticated can be gleaned from the study of animal bones , and with evidence from plant and shellfish remains , there may he clues to what people ate . |
| 7 | The police officer who saw the shooting is being treated for shock . |
| 8 | The implementation of the team recommendation programme is being finalised for execution this winter so that the full benefits of team working may be realised . |
| 9 | A new car park and bridge over the brook is being created for ease and safety of access at all times of the year . |
| 10 | The UK government announced on Dec. 1 that a further £1,200,000 in aid was being provided for reconstruction work , making a total of £4,200,000 . |
| 11 | The 68040-based machine is being designed for Apple 's A/UX version of Unix and will inherit much of the Quadra 900 's architecture , the paper says , and is expected to be announced in October for shipping as early as January 1993 . |
| 12 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 13 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 14 | Cos up until then all the natural fibres were still being used , wool was being used for outer-wear , cotton was being used for underwear , cotton lisle . |
| 15 | The 30-foot long skeletons are being offered for sale to museums and wildlife centres , including some in the UK , where conservationists are calling for an embargo . |
| 16 | In fact , multinational oil companies working in the North Sea had little choice but to be receptive to the attempts to maximise the spin-off for UK industry if they wanted to stay in good standing with the Government when applications were being considered for exploration licences . |
| 17 | A woman driving the other car involved in the accident is being treated for face and chest injuries . |
| 18 | Sudrajat was announcing the findings of a special military council investigating the massacre and said that a further five officers were being investigated for indiscipline . |
| 19 | Perforated Ulster is being recorded for transmission by the BBC , BBC production and direction by Joan Boyd , Colin Lewis and Charlie Warmington . |
| 20 | Therefore claims incurred where , for example , a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered . |
| 21 | Some of the world 's rarest trees are being offered for sale to anyone with enough room to grow them . |
| 22 | Today we 'll be talking about all those guarantees that you 've seen when you bought your car and when you bought your refrigerator and when you 've bought almost anything nowadays , because people are being spoiled for choice on guarantees it seems . |
| 23 | Huge piles of every newspaper and magazine were being offered for sale . |
| 24 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 25 | The defect was not noticeable when the recorders were being used for voice or music , but it was enough to mess up software . |
| 26 | Arrangements were being made for signature by Estonia , Kirghistan , Lithuania , Moldova and Turkmenistan . |
| 27 | The supercomputer is being used for weather prediction in Scandinavia , for defence uses by the Pentagon , and for molecular modelling ( see photo ) . |
| 28 | Let us suppose that the kth member of the population sequence is being considered for sample inclusion and that thus far in the sampling process , we have obtained n k of the n sample members that we require . |
| 29 | ONE of the most attractively sited factories in Merseyside is being offered for lease or outright sale in Southport . |
| 30 | Section 18 penalizes the possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime or to resist arrest : this is a more specific variation of section 16 , catering for the defence that the firearm was being carried for use in a robbery but with no intention that it would actually be used to endanger anyone , only to frighten — that would be a section 18 offence . |