Example sentences of "[noun pl] being [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of their colleagues are off work sick for long periods being treated for nervous disorders . |
| 2 | The boundaries of these areas should be clearly delineated on a plan , and appropriate conditions should refer to those areas being safeguarded for future development . |
| 3 | Much of the planned research involves fieldwork based on samples of manufacturing plants in the countries to be compared , the plants being matched for industrial sector and size employment . |
| 4 | And what about those dogs and monkeys being used for experimental purposes ? |
| 5 | The use of ‘ structured ’ interviews , with the same items being used for all interviewees , allows the generality of responses to be evaluated . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got a list of patients being treated for major psychoses at London hospitals — yes , yes , I know that strictly speaking that 's a bit unethical , but let me tell you , not nearly as unethical as some of the other things we have here . |
| 7 | In the early 1980s these rates were greatly influenced by the economic crises prompted by debt problems , with negative rates being recorded for most countries . |
| 8 | We have heard evidence of arrangements being made for special services on Sundays in casual wards … every endeavour should be made to break the monotony of the casuals ’ Sunday by these and other means , such as visits by persons of goodwill ’ . |
| 9 | There are stories of tiger skins being exchanged for second-hand cars . |
| 10 | The prices being asked for vacant buildings in Manchester were quite high , being based on ‘ hope value ’ rather than use value . |
| 11 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 12 | The photo includes a Baitrunner and a Custom X , these two reels being used for specific situations , the Baitrunner for trollingand the Custom X , which is high speed , for drifting . |
| 13 | Narrower strips , perhaps 50 m wide have been suggested as appropriate in Amazonia , such strips being gardened for some years and replanted with trees as well ; seed and mycorrhizae sources are close by . |
| 14 | We can even see pseudo-ethnic groups being invented for political purposes , as in the attempt by some of the British left to classify all third-world immigrants as ‘ black ’ in order to give them more leverage within the Labour Party for which most of them vote . |
| 15 | He would have been better still , however , to have decided differently , and to have agreed to at least some of the cases being re-examined for possible pardon . |
| 16 | Children being punished for acceptable behaviour . |
| 17 | Children being rewarded for unacceptable behaviour . |
| 18 | It prevents proceedings being transferred for this reason unless it can be shown that no other method , including transfer to another magistrates ' court , is appropriate and that delay would seriously prejudice the child 's interests . |
| 19 | They state that ‘ A reasonable target [ for CPE ] can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity … members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE … through structured activities … |
| 20 | A reasonable target can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity . |
| 21 | This excess of fear has been displayed by weanling Thoroughbreds being prepared for public auction . |
| 22 | Moreover , by the 1780s each of the two departments of the ministry handling correspondence with French diplomats abroad included two or three men being trained for diplomatic work , though the training seems to have been more directly practical than anything Torcy had had in mind . |
| 23 | Thank you for sending me the documents being prepared for this conference . |
| 24 | Yeah numbers twenty five , twenty six of the junction of Torquay Road is for sale with a building plot in one of the gardens , the premises being used for many years as doctor 's surgery ancillary accommodation and car parking , the property will be available when the doctors move into the new practice home in joining Cricket Field Road car park |
| 25 | The author of the Saturday article thought that the chances of the four schemes being selected for detailed examination were very remote and was probably surprised when the judges awarded prizes to all four , albeit rather low prizes . |
| 26 | These arguments are given some strength when we realise that the claims being made for English language by Lyons are remarkably similar to those being made for other aspects of English in general , or of English class culture in particular , by other writers . |
| 27 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 28 | But there was no question of any of the first-class counties being relegated for poor results . |
| 29 | At the Sizewell inquiry , and in parliament and ministerial statements , much play has been made of the existence of international safeguards and treaties designed to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons and to block civil facilities being used for military purposes . |