Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 3 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 4 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 5 | It was very difficult to find experienced people … in fields in which everything was destroyed for 50 successive years . " |
| 6 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 7 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 8 | Documents served by post are deemed to be served on the second business day after posting ; those delivered via a document exchange on the second business day after the day on which they were left for collection . |
| 9 | It appeared , on examining the offences involved , that Blacks had more ‘ indictable only ’ offences , and also more ‘ triable-either-way ’ offences for which they were committed for trial . |
| 10 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 11 | Air France gained many improvements to their airline training programme by allowing them to : significantly reduce the duration of the training cycle , reduce the time between hiring the pilot and the point at which he is qualified for jet operations by at least one year , reduce type conversion hours by at least 10% , and make an improvement in the selection of pilots by providing a better assessment of trainee ability for heavy or medium jet aircraft . |
| 12 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |
| 13 | The movie was quickly forgotten but director Martin Scorsese remembered Pesci and hired him to play Joey La Motta in Raging Bull , for which he was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 14 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 15 | Within the underground complex many mysterious rites take place which it is forbidden for any male to witness . |
| 16 | The Macallan is a smooth , sumptuous whisky that gets its character and rich , dark amber colour from the sherry casks in which it is aged for at least ten years . |
| 17 | The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population . |
| 18 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 19 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 20 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 21 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff . |
| 24 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 25 | It 's what I 'm trained for . ’ |
| 26 | After all , that 's what I 'm trained for , ai n't it ? ’ |
| 27 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 28 | It 's what I 'm paid for , and my services do n't come cheap . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's what I 'm paid for . |
| 30 | Your paying me to keep it a bit tidy , I said and that 's what I 'm paid for , I said I ai n't paid to pass an opinion whether it 's clean or dirty he said you sound just like me June , I said oh do I ? |