Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should I be penalised for helping someone in trouble ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd like your help again , ’ he said when she let him in , ‘ assuming I 'm forgiven for abandoning you so brusquely yesterday evening . ’ |
| 3 | But erm , so now I 'm blamed for waking her up . |
| 4 | ‘ Back in Holland , I 'm known for making movies which very broad sexual and political statements , and they are my statements , ’ he adds . |
| 5 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 6 | I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire . |
| 7 | When we got home I was thrashed for making my mother ‘ look a fool ’ . |
| 8 | If you look at the history of the band , songs like I Was Made For Loving You , which had a kind of dance feel , we could have done much more of that and been successful with it . |
| 9 | I was stopped for speeding when I was 15 miles over the limit . |
| 10 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 11 | ‘ I was sacked for speaking my mind too loudly , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 13 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 14 | According to the Parish Survey some 74% of parishes use Anglican chant at least occasionally , It is to be hoped that their congregations have copies of psalms and canticles which are pointed for singing . |
| 15 | The cost of buying equipment and the requirement of skilled personnel to maintain and run it can make its use in the repeated assessments which are required for measuring rhythms prohibitively expensive . |
| 16 | Those elements of tensor analysis which are required for assimilating GR are presented in this chapter . |
| 17 | Most multimeters have ranges which are designed for measuring voltage , current and resistance . |
| 18 | The income of these farmers is partly from wool , but mainly from lambs or young store cattle which are sold for fattening on the farms of the lowlands . |
| 19 | The clearing banks keep operational balances at the Bank which are used for settling the final position at the end of the day between the Bank and the banking system , and their drawing down of money from the discount houses will be designed to keep these balances at a " target " level considered appropriate given the uncertainty of the daily cash flows to the Bank . |
| 20 | They then run it into pits , break it up , and use it for road stone or alternatively , the molten slag is run over water-cooled rollers where it forms little tiny pellets with a high air content which are used for making insulation blocks . |
| 21 | The high efficiency of diamond drill bits for cutting through reinforced concrete walls has even resulted in their being chosen for obtaining illegal entry into bank safes ! |
| 22 | It was navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons , mostly keels which were used for transporting coal and lime to Leven and took away corn and various commodities made in the village such as candles , rope , and a certain type of brick . |
| 23 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 24 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 25 | The Cellophane which is made for wrapping and packaging is therefore protected by a very thin coating , on each face , of a water-resistant lacquer . |
| 26 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 27 | Some are cash crops , particularly wheat which the farmers sell to the flour mills in Leith and Glasgow , and barley , about half of which is sold for making beer and whisky in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Assessment which is used for providing feedback to those most centrally concerned with a pupil 's learning , the pupil , the pupil 's teacher and parents , is often known as " formative " in contrast to " summative " which is mainly for external purposes . |
| 29 | Nominal price of the share ; this is the nominal value which is used for accounting purposes in the annual accounts . |
| 30 | Since the spacing patterns are the same for all normal distributions the divisions are carried forward to provide the probability ordinate scaling for the arithmetic probability graph which is used for plotting cumulative size distributions . |