Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here . |
| 2 | On the face of it , the argument I think is this , the words , oh my God he 's come for are hearsay , sorry , are not hearsay , because although they 're an out of court statement they 're not introduced as the truth . |
| 3 | Different kinds of drills and what they are used for are described in detail in chapters 5–8 . |
| 4 | While it was the foetus or child en ventre sa mère who was injured , the damages sued for are the damages suffered by the plaintiff Ann since birth and which she will continue to suffer as a result of that injury . |
| 5 | " Doubling " in the context of gambling is clearly shown in Saint Pierre et le jongleur , where during the two games the stakes played for are steadily doubled . |
| 6 | The things they are being tested for are all those we 've been training for up until this time . |
| 7 | For management decision-making the relevant costs to be accounted for are future incremental costs . |