Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [verb] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teesside Operations has been praised for entering the ‘ lion 's den ’ in its campaign to improve communications with the local community . |
| 2 | Japan , for instance , has political support for such assistance , but the report points out that the body implementing bilateral aid programmes has been criticised for tying aid too closely to Japanese commercial interests , such as its high-technology products . |
| 3 | Despite an agreement between Peabody and the Navajo Tribal Council , pollution from the mines has been blamed for contaminating local water supplies , and forcing Indians to leave their homes . |
| 4 | British Nuclear Fuels has been criticised for trying to conclude a deal with South Korea , a country which President Bush has named as increasing the proliferation risk . |
| 5 | The second equally obvious point is that , given the disparate analyses , a variety of prescriptions have been offered for dealing with the presumed causes of the nation 's ills . |
| 6 | Fortunately , various purely psychological methods have been devised for studying the organisation of the mental lexicon in normal subjects , and some of these will be discussed in this chapter . |
| 7 | Resistivity methods have been developed for investigating fracturing in boreholes . |
| 8 | Various methods have been tried for producing this ‘ ground ’ . |
| 9 | It 's first time hunt supporters have been jailed for assaulting a protester . |
| 10 | Victorian parents have been condemned for clothing their children in black for months on end , and putting even babies into mourning . |
| 11 | SHOPKEEPERS have been praised for refusing to sell fireworks to young children . |
| 12 | In certain states , broadcasters have been disciplined for reporting political opposition . |
| 13 | TV COMPANIES have been attacked for targeting children with ads for fatty and sugary foods . |
| 14 | Accusations of unfair trading have been particularly widespread in recessions when Japanese companies have been attacked for dumping products in foreign markets . |
| 15 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 16 | Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem . |
| 17 | In the course of the hearings it emerged that a number of other former government officials had been paid for lobbying on housing developments . |
| 18 | Social workers have been criticised for paying for driving lessons for a seventeen year old single mother . |
| 19 | This is perhaps not surprising since from the earliest stages of domestication , dogs have been kept for guarding purposes . |
| 20 | Yachts have been fined for neglecting to fly one in Turkey , and reprimanded for a torn one in Greece . |
| 21 | The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram of Aug. 3 reported that 120 Iraqi officers had been executed for refusing to support the invasion , a claim confirmed by Arab diplomats arriving in Syria from Kuwait in late August . |
| 22 | Dozens of of Gay Rights campaigners have been arrested for marching too close to the Houses of Parliament whilst it was in session . |
| 23 | Local farmers have been paid for giving the developers the right to buy their land if the plan is approved . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s we now see town planning and architecture — shapers of the housing environment — charged with professional disrepute : once the great hope of being effective providers of an environment of social purpose , the two professions have been derided for giving the public the wrong thing , and in the wrong manner . |
| 25 | Some Urban Programme resources have been used for housing rehabilitation , the London Docklands Development Corporation has presided over substantial housing developments ( see below ) and , as discussed above , UDG has boosted inner-urban residential schemes . |
| 26 | Other minor reforms have been suggested for reducing public expenditure . |
| 27 | Working for patients has been criticised for failing to emphasise the importance of people and not being more specific about the need for personnel management . |
| 28 | A range of elegant techniques has been developed for characterising new genetic mutations — all the techniques rely on the generation by the polymerase chain reaction of large quantities of DNA fragments from normal and mutant alleles . |
| 29 | However , recently , new techniques have been devised for studying the behaviour of embryonic cells in their normal environment in the conceptus during these stages of development . |
| 30 | In this chapter , techniques have been presented for smoothing time series data . |