Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesperson for the band confirmed a national tour is currently being pieced together for late autumn . |
| 2 | Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm , Casio , were being checked yesterday for structural damage . |
| 3 | The decision came after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan 's nuclear programme was being designed exclusively for peaceful purposes . |
| 4 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 5 | It provides a framework for modelling and understanding of the behaviour of complex social and business organisation and is being used widely for systematic problem-solving , organisational learning and business re-engineering in a variety of fields . |
| 6 | Currently , however , graduated assessment is being used more for formative purposes internal to a school where wrong decisions do not have such serious consequences . |
| 7 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 8 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |
| 9 | It is likely that the child will be unaccustomed to being rewarded consistently for good behaviour ( the CB in this case ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Being brought in for big games without any warning is something I 'm used to . |
| 11 | ‘ Being brought in for big games without any warning is something I 'm used to . |
| 12 | The scheme would offer temporary work for up to four days a week , with the other day being set aside for continuing job search . |
| 13 | With the mines now being put up for private operation , a great deal will depend on how sincere British Coal is about helping the new licensees to make a go of it . |
| 14 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 15 | But Mary was not actually being singled out for special treatment or favour , except in so far as her own attractiveness and charm marked her out . |
| 16 | He would certainly not have approved of being singled out for special treatment . |
| 17 | Among the smaller northern peoples there was no tribal aristocracy , chiefs only being chosen temporarily for specific purposes such as war . |
| 18 | Other Scottish towns anxious to follow Airdrie 's pioneering success are Kilmarnock , Stirling and Falkirk , which have studied the scheme , and a meeting prompted by Ettrick and Lauderdale council is being held today for interested business people in the Borders . |