Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] be [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 There is evidence for forest clearing 11000 years BP in Taiwan and of agriculture between 14000 and 8000 BP in Thailand , and New Guinea by 9000 BP , though tools much older than this have been claimed for the island ; rice was being grown in Sulawesi by 6000 BP .
2 Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming .
3 Some have been done for you .
4 Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research .
5 County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades .
6 The following have been reserved for coach parking from the times stated ( coaches parking earlier than the times given risk being towed away ) :
7 Furthermore , differences in the EC 5 of up to 1000-fold have been reported for chloroquine between parasites from a single geographical region .
8 AFTER a full audit in April , Wood-Way Hydraulic Services Limited and Wood-Way Engineering Services Limited have been recommended for accreditation to BS5750 Part 2 .
9 Thus , while most winters produce short cold snaps which have been accepted as part of the normal pattern , the effects of the quite exceptionally severe winters of early 1947 , 1956 , and 1963 have been allowed for when making comparisons .
10 In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda .
11 Various dates ranging from 1850 to 1870 have been suggested for its inauguration , but the first newspaper report , in the Craven Herald , was in 1882 .
12 Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments .
13 Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% .
14 None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung .
15 The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system .
16 So these have been made for us by Theakstons , they 're made of new oak with er instead of metal metal was used .
17 These have been used for surveys of ruined areas in North Africa with , in the view of the archaeologists , a success rate better than could be achieved by any other aerial platform .
18 The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years .
19 Many have been killed for sport by oil surveyors and troops using automatic weapons .
20 Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun .
21 A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation .
22 Questions 1 and 4 have been done for you .
23 The results of Model Developments Ltd have been included for the period 1st April 1990 to the date of disposal of 1st January 1991 .
24 Many of the backing off formulae that are available have been derived for semantic applications where the matrices are extremely sparse .
25 that save where persons under 16 have been exploited for sexual purposes or persons of any age have been made to suffer actual physical harm , sexual depictions should no longer be subject to the criminal law ; and
26 Fourteen locomotive types were eliminated during the 1980s , although examples of all but five have been secured for preservation .
27 As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year .
28 An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in …
29 Extended pachytene chromosomes prepared by the techniques described in Section 2.6 have been used for the localization of genes by in situ hybridization techniques ( 16,17 ) .
30 Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy .
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