Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 2 | More study needs to be made of garden buildings and structures in later Victorian and Edwardian town gardens , which were often laid out on an elaborate scale and contain interesting features that have been entirely forgotten ; these are in danger of destruction as the gardens of suburban houses are divided up for redevelopment . |
| 3 | Checks are carried out for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media . |
| 4 | Black kids are psyched up for sport anyway . |
| 5 | The folding legs are swung out for action and the control valve ( at the end of 12in flexible tubing is screwed onto the gas cartridge . |
| 6 | But I could not row more grain without causing an even worse grazing crisis from April to July when three acres are laid up for hay . |
| 7 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 8 | Kumar has retained his position at St Andrew 's despite the club being put up for sale last month after his business empire went into receivership . |
| 9 | BIRMINGHAM CITY manager Terry Cooper yesterday claimed that chairman Samesh Kumar kept him in the dark about the club being put up for sale . |
| 10 | And it was suggested that the closure programme had not been properly thought out , resulting in some homes being singled out for closure which should be kept open . |
| 11 | With laboratory test results negative for HIV infection , AIDS is ruled out for surveillance purposes unless the patient has had : |
| 12 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 13 | It is also clear from Walkley v Precision Forgings [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 606 and Chappell v Cooper [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 463 that where the plaintiff commences an action during the primary s11 or s12 limitation period but then puts himself in a position where he can not pursue it , for instance by letting his writ expire without service or delaying so much that his action is struck out for want of prosecution , the court will have no power to exercise s33 discretion , since it is the plaintiff 's own action or default which has prejudiced him and not the operation of s11 or 12 . |
| 14 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 15 | The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month . |
| 16 | Simpson is the second player to leave the Manor Ground since the club was put up for sale eleven weeks ago . |
| 17 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of AMI Healthcare was put up for auction this week after the company 's Los Angeles parent changed hands . |
| 19 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
| 20 | then , by setting a fifth of the usual time , a ball park figure was laid down for trail and error , up and down the variables until a best method was agreed by all . |
| 21 | ‘ Conversely few companies are in a position to compete strongly in the auction when subsidiaries are put up for sale , ’ they said . |
| 22 | The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration . |
| 23 | Here are a few indications of the different laws worldwide where a stolen work is put up for sale . |
| 24 | If you work in a university , polytechnic , college or school anywhere in the world and your work is held up for lack of funding , the Research Fund may be able to help you . |
| 25 | The material for a given vehicle was split up for convenience under various grouped headings . |
| 26 | A draft circular was sent out for comment in mid-1980 . |
| 27 | The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids . |
| 28 | The company 's stay was fairly brief , for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction . |
| 29 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 30 | Soon thereafter the machine was shut down for renovation and the experiments ended . |