Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoteliers are backing calls for tougher legislation to make hotel swimming pools safer following an IEHO report slamming hotel pools ' safety standards . |
| 2 | Already some manufacturers are offering incentives for safe return of batteries , so that they can recycle or dispose of them safely . |
| 3 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 4 | More and more teenagers are becoming vegetarian for those reasons . |
| 5 | British footie fans were combing Europe for new styles a decade ago , says Peter Hooton ( above ) , who documented the rise of the humble sports shoe via his fanzine , The End |
| 6 | Mr Lang said a minority of parents were undermining schooling for all children through allowing truancy , failing to teach the difference between right and wrong and leaving education to schools . |
| 7 | A Scottish Office spokesman dismissed recent reports that private organisations were preparing plans for private prisons as pure speculation . |
| 8 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 9 | The teams are raising money for local charities and appeals . |
| 10 | At that time a variety of the women 's presses were mooting ideas for conventional anthologies of Black writing in the UK . |
| 11 | British Airways is charging £79 for round-trip flights ex-Heathrow to Belfast , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Newcastle . |
| 12 | They are fortunate that , for the most part , the increasing personal contact at work , the continuing isolation of farm workers from other occupational groups and the increasing proportion of workers living in tied housing out on the farms are providing opportunities for this identification to be retained , should farmers choose to cultivate it . |
| 13 | Dickens declared that : ‘ Long before Henry VIII broke with Rome numerous developments were preparing Englishmen for some sort of religious and ecclesiastical change or crisis . ’ |
| 14 | Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ . |
| 15 | OWNERS of motor vehicles are sitting ducks for avaricious chancellors who already screw them for far more cash in fuel and vehicle tax than is spent on the roads . |
| 16 | At the time of writing negotiations are taking place for another Drummond locomotive to be at the show . |
| 17 | The militants were publicizing demands for political status to be conferred on their imprisoned leader Patricio Baquerizo whom they wanted released . |
| 18 | With the fiftieth anniversary of the historic ‘ December Ninth ’ approaching , students were laying plans for large-scale rallies to remind the government of their traditional role as remonstrators and revolutionaries . |