Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 2 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 3 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 4 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 5 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 6 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 7 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 8 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 9 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 10 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 11 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 12 | In front gardens , lawns are paved over for off-street parking space and in the road more intrusion results from signs , barriers and other traffic-related street furniture . |
| 13 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 14 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 15 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 16 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 17 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 18 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 19 | Present employment law restricts the effect of such a covenant in a service agreement , but if inserted in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement , it is more likely to be enforceable. ( 3 ) The service agreement will be for a fixed term so that the managers are locked in for that period . |
| 20 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 21 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 22 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 23 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 24 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 25 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 26 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 27 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 28 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 29 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 30 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |