Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 2 | Whether they will feel as enthusiastic after being deluged for three weeks with the results of the £30m-plus likely to be spent by the main parties is more questionable . |
| 3 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 4 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 5 | He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms . |
| 6 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |
| 7 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 8 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 9 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 10 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 11 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |
| 12 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 13 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 14 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 15 | MARK JONES , Hull 's Welsh rugby league international forward , will miss the match against France in Perpignan on Sunday week after being suspended for six matches by the League disciplinary committee last night . |
| 16 | Wigan prop Kelvin Skerrett will miss the tie after being banned for five matches last night while Hull second row Steve McNamara received a four-match suspension . |
| 17 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 18 | Possibly , then , the orang-utan has been excluded from the ground through competition with man , and has become arboreal , perhaps also as a result of being hunted for 30000 years by its competitor . |
| 19 | These ‘ cairns ’ , as they are called , can reach enormous proportions , those on the tops of hills being capable in some instances of being seen for many miles . |
| 20 | To meet this need , high-power video lights have been developed from earlier photographic types which are capable of being run for long periods at full power . |
| 21 | Polar plants must be capable of being frozen for several months each year , and to undergo repeated freeze-thaw cycles throughout the growing season , even at the height of summer . |
| 22 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 23 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 24 | The Association feared that if floodlighting caught on , clubs would be drawn into spending too much money , and it banned the new lights at Highbury from being used for official matches . |
| 25 | Officers were allowed to take part in board discussions , and they saw one of their main roles as being to help prevent negative decisions from being taken for trivial reasons . |
| 26 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 27 | Urine was diluted 25 to 100 times with TRIS-EDTA buffer ( 50 mM TRIS HCl , 4 mM EDTA , pH 7.5 ) before being assayed for cyclic nucleotides . |
| 28 | Cooke then spent a year at a commercial school at Neatishead before being apprenticed for five years to a wholesale draper in Norwich . |
| 29 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 30 | Slote concedes that in determining how much of a stock should be retained , separate percentages may have to be fixed for different sections of the stock , such as fiction and non-fiction . |