Example sentences of "[prep] being [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 2 | A New Zealand court held that an undertaking by the government not to introduce legislation regarding the advertising of cigarettes was incapable of being consideration for a promise by a tobacco company because the government 's promise was of no value : it can not fetter the legislature : Rothmans of Pall Mall ( NZ ) Ltd. v. Attorney General [ 1991 ] N.Z.L.R. 323 . |
| 3 | the benefit to B is capable of being consideration for B's promise , so that the promise will be legally binding . |
| 4 | There were arrests , people were detained er without trial , they were n't charged with anything but on suspicion of being spies for the confederacy . |
| 5 | The villages were apparently suspected of being bases for Armenian guerrilla raids against Azerbaijani communities , and the troops were officially acting to enforce Gorbachev 's July 1990 decree on disarming paramilitary groups [ see pp. 37618 ; 37664 ] . |
| 6 | We ca n't get along being under-strength for ever . ’ |