Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 2 | Displacement theory has , however , been criticized for giving insufficient weight to political influences on the level of public expenditure . |
| 3 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 4 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 5 | The Air Forces of the UK , Netherlands and Germany are criticized for continuing low-level flying exercises over the lands of the Innu people on the Labrador-Quebec peninsula . |
| 6 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 7 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 8 | Access methods , in general , are designed for handling small amounts of persistent data . |
| 9 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 10 | The compounds are a major cause of low-level ozone pollution and photo-chemical smog , which has been blamed for damaging human health and contributing to " acid rain " attacks on plants , forests and crops . |
| 11 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 12 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 13 | Despite an agreement between Peabody and the Navajo Tribal Council , pollution from the mines has been blamed for contaminating local water supplies , and forcing Indians to leave their homes . |
| 14 | Brackish effluent from the farms has been blamed for polluting fresh water on which rice production depends , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 15 | In certain states , broadcasters have been disciplined for reporting political opposition . |
| 16 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 17 | A case has also been made for using educational variables as an alternative . |
| 18 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 19 | A REGIONAL councillor has been censured for removing three sets of keys from a district council 's offices . |
| 20 | A series of microphones mounted above public buildings around Manchester and linked to a central computer record the noise levels of aircraft and fines are imposed for exceeding permitted levels , 109 perceived decibels in the daytime and 101 at nighttime . |
| 21 | They are used for teaching large groups of students and they make use of both auditory and visual sensory inputs ( via the blackboard or overhead projector ) . |
| 22 | Bituminous paints are used for protecting exterior metal work — gutters , downpipes and so on — and not as damp proofers . |
| 23 | Other lines are used for painting ordinary vehicles , mostly of small class . |
| 24 | Occasionally , precious stones and crystals are used for carving small idols . |
| 25 | All those who are thanked for encouraging this publication are hereby disgraced , except for Craig Raine , who at least made him rewrite his book more lucidly . |
| 26 | Various reasons have been advanced for recognizing qualified defences to murder . |
| 27 | In general , male stones are employed for making major icons of Gods while the pedestal is carved out of female stones . |
| 28 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 29 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 30 | Finally the groundwork has been laid for obtaining useful rock mechanics data which can aid hydraulic fracture modelling in the Carboniferous . |