Example sentences of "[noun sg] be be [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 2 | The police officer who saw the shooting is being treated for shock . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A new car park and bridge over the brook is being created for ease and safety of access at all times of the year . |
| 5 | HAMMER is being sued for $5.7 million in royalties and other damages by James Early , co-producer of the rapper 's ‘ Please Hammer Do n't Hurt 'Em ’ LP . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A similar Council is being built for Panjabi , based in the London Borough of Haringey , and inheriting the work of two previous conferences at Middlesex Polytechnic . |
| 10 | A major public education campaign is being planned for Hanoi after successive reports have warned of the urgent necessity of environmental protection for the city . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | A woman driving the other car involved in the accident is being treated for face and chest injuries . |
| 15 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 16 | In March an indoor games evening has been arranged at Mitchell 's Social Club and a quiz night is being planned for April at the same venue . |
| 17 | Alpha is being developed for systems like the US Advanced Tactical Fighter , which has about 20 real-time computer systems on board , the NASA space station , and possibly the Strategic Defense Initiative . |
| 18 | Southern Water is being sued for £20,000 by a windsurfer who claims he contracted Hepatitis-A from the sea off Eastbourne , Sussex . |
| 19 | Ramzan is being sued for £30,000 by a building society . |
| 20 | Therefore claims incurred where , for example , a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered . |
| 21 | Huge piles of every newspaper and magazine were being offered for sale . |
| 22 | The supercomputer is being used for weather prediction in Scandinavia , for defence uses by the Pentagon , and for molecular modelling ( see photo ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A Discovery Guide is being developed for YBG , which will be produced ready for the 1992 visitor season . |
| 25 | Comprehensive and complex formal procedures were being simplified to concentrate on key issues of control , and a step-by-step guide is being produced for headquarters managers and principals and governors of schools and colleges . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My brother , a dog lover , whose own elderly dog was being cared for back in England , decided to take the pups home to the family . |
| 28 | The casualties were detained at the Westminster Hospital where the woman was being treated for back injuries and the men for shock . |
| 29 | The woman was being treated for Hodgkins Disease — a form of cancer — when her spinal cord was injured . |
| 30 | Famous carpets from Templeton 's past are being assembled for display in ‘ Glasgow 's Glasgow ’ , an exhibition staged in the vaulted arches below Central Station . |