Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Less ambitiously , you might ask your employer to agree to repatriate you , together with your family and possessions , free of charge , if your job ends prematurely for any reason , except perhaps if you have been dismissed for misconduct .
2 On receipt of the reply from the employer it was stated that Mr. Docherty had been dismissed for misconduct .
3 As a result of the changes Richard Prebble , who had been dismissed for disloyalty in November 1988 by David Lange , Palmer 's predecessor [ see p. 36294 ] , returned to the government .
4 It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] .
5 Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that
6 And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks .
7 A large number of students are enrolled for City and Guilds and RSA certificates .
8 Some 13,650 full-time and part-time students are enrolled for courses at all levels of higher education , from part-time certificate programmes to doctoral studies .
9 Some semantic data-base models such as Taxis also provide this capability and their expressiveness has been examined for text [ 1 ] .
10 ‘ It 's been examined for fingerprints .
11 The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations .
12 Here the ewes ( female sheep ) are gathered for lambing and later for shearing wool and for dipping to control insect pests .
13 For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power .
14 Equally , you may have a right of redress if you are dismissed for failure to comply with an unjust order .
15 She said : ‘ There is an emphasis today on matching cultural and racial backgrounds when children are placed for adoption or fostering .
16 Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort .
17 Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works .
18 It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project .
19 No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s .
20 Success rates are given for tasks taken as representative of the criterion concerned .
21 In the following account , details are given for preparation of high quality thin sections by automatic and semi-automatic means .
22 Possible mathematical experiences are given for activities involving each item .
23 One source of these surplus calories excreted is obviously the non-digestible cell-wall material which forms much of the dietary fibre itself : This is taken into account when calorie figures are given for carbohydrate foods .
24 The Voigt sums are given for comparison .
25 If credits are given for completion , students are motivated .
26 It is also useful to demonstrate the choice you are given for data entry in many Windows boxes .
27 On the CDC 6600 computer certain values of the floating-point exponent are set aside to represent zero , infinite , and " indefinite " operand values , and rules are given for arithmetic operations on these quantities ( for example , the difference of two infinite operands is indefinite ) .
28 These are given for illustration only , since in practice the first would almost certainly be classified under 624.151 along with all the other books on foundation soils and engineering geology .
29 The score is obtained by finding the most abnormal value for physiological indices in the 24 h after admission to ICU ; additional points are given for age , chronic health status , and renal function .
30 ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . )
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