Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 2 | THE parents of murdered British safari girl Julie Ward , left , have been honoured for their campaign to bring her killers to justice . |
| 3 | A NUMBER of North West names have been honoured for their services to the community or their profession . |
| 4 | TWO North-East heroes have been honoured for their outstanding courage . |
| 5 | Henley rower , Steve Redgrave has been honoured for his outstanding achievement in the sport . |
| 6 | He says because my father died early in 1937 he 's never been honoured for his work . |
| 7 | As long as a strong argument or sound reasons are given for your opinions they will stand on their own . |
| 8 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 9 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 10 | The office appointment had been intended for his elder brother Jonas , who appeared to possess the mind of a future attorney . |
| 11 | Most people who have testicular cancer and who are treated for it and cured go on to lead perfectly active normal lives as far as having children is concerned . |
| 12 | When Byrd 's songs have finally been recognized for what they are , there will at last be a recording of ‘ O dear life , when may be it be , sung to its complete text all eight stanzas of Sir Philip Sidney 's agonizingly erotic poem by five brave and talented singers who know exactly what they are doing . |
| 13 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 14 | It also emphasizes the importance of readings in which fictional texts are recognized for what they are rather than being treated as truth claims or pronouncements about the world . |
| 15 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 16 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 18 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 19 | The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) . |
| 20 | The FNM attacked the size and cost of the new Cabinet and called for the resignation of Maynard and of Philip Bethel , who had been criticized for his stewardship of the Transport Ministry and the troubles of the state airline Bahamasair . |
| 21 | De Franco was appointed president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua replacing Raúl A. Lacayo Solórzano who had been criticized for his credit policies . |
| 22 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The only minister who actually lost a vote of no confidence ( by 74 to 23 ) was Arnis Kalnins , who resigned as Minister of Economic Reform , having been criticized for his inability to conduct the restructuring of the economy along free market lines . |
| 24 | There s NO WAY they could do that , unless they are pressed for them . |
| 25 | The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible . |
| 26 | Maha was a lushly beautiful woman who had left the husband who had been arranged for her . |
| 27 | For twenty years all these details had been arranged for her . |
| 28 | And what has been arranged for me ? , |
| 29 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 30 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |