Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 3 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 4 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 5 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 6 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 7 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 8 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 9 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 10 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 11 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 12 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 13 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |
| 14 | I find I am lost for words : put down the telephone , but not before a woman snatches the phone and says , ‘ Who 's that ? |
| 15 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 16 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 17 | I am cared for . |
| 18 | But then with an ever deepening sinking feeling inside I realise that I am bound for failure once again . |
| 19 | ‘ I am bound for Ludlow . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am prepared for a partition that will not put me to shame before the Arabs ’ they reported him as saying , and he assured me of them , Golda Meir , ‘ that he would not attack the partitioned Jewish State but that he would annex [ Arab ] Palestine . ’ |
| 21 | But this time I am prepared for it and wind the reel — a fast-retrieve model fortunately — as fast as possible , dipping the rod-tip to the surface of the lake on my right and applying a massive dose of side-strain . |
| 22 | ‘ I am doomed for all eternity . ’ |
| 23 | However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff . |
| 24 | I am paid for something I love doing . ’ |
| 25 | Besides , if I marry Saul now , she will think I am provided for and leave the house away from me . ’ |
| 26 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why should I be penalised for helping someone in trouble ? |
| 28 | ‘ If I kiss you , will I be prosecuted for sexual harassment when we get back to England ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why should I be punished for what Jason Prior 's tried to do to me — ? ’ |
| 30 | If my chance does n't come sooner it will definitely come later and I 'm prepared for it . |