Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 2 | The Cellophane which is made for wrapping and packaging is therefore protected by a very thin coating , on each face , of a water-resistant lacquer . |
| 3 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 5 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 6 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 7 | Some are cash crops , particularly wheat which the farmers sell to the flour mills in Leith and Glasgow , and barley , about half of which is sold for making beer and whisky in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Assessment which is used for providing feedback to those most centrally concerned with a pupil 's learning , the pupil , the pupil 's teacher and parents , is often known as " formative " in contrast to " summative " which is mainly for external purposes . |
| 9 | Nominal price of the share ; this is the nominal value which is used for accounting purposes in the annual accounts . |
| 10 | Since the spacing patterns are the same for all normal distributions the divisions are carried forward to provide the probability ordinate scaling for the arithmetic probability graph which is used for plotting cumulative size distributions . |
| 11 | This result suggests that the human visual system exploits the fact that the differential perspective effects increase with increasing eccentricity and consequently pools this information across quite large visual extents to obtain an estimate of absolute distance which is used for scaling disparities . |
| 12 | The active Program Group window has a highlighted border which is used for re-sizing . |
| 13 | M more importantly , the technique which is used for predicting traffic flows which the County Council ha have used . |
| 14 | Nathalie Ions and Clare Jefferson , aged seven and eight , both live on Blue Hall estate , which is included for revamping in the City Challenge bid . |
| 15 | There may be something in the view that many environmental regulations in the United States are over-stringent , but an insurance market that boasts of insuring all risks , and which is paid for doing to , can not logically complain when unforeseen risks are realized . |
| 16 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 17 | Irish police believe they have foiled a major IRA kidnap attempt led by Patrick Sheehy , who is wanted for questioning in connection with the discovery in December of bomb-making materials in Clapham , south London . |
| 18 | An example of a punishing event would be a child at school who is reprimanded for talking during lessons . |
| 19 | Nathan is a swinger , who is blamed for whoring after and mistreating gentile women . |
| 20 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 21 | One is to take for granted that the novel is a mode of communication , and to analyse its formal features as techniques of communication ; the other is to question the assumption that the novel is communication — to ask what is implied by that assumption , and what excluded . |
| 22 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 23 | Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so . |
| 24 | The tailwheel must be locked immediately before take-off and remain so until the completion of the landing roll , when it is unlocked for taxying and manoeuvring . |
| 25 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 26 | It is recommended for printing word-processed documents and graphics and , Olivetti says , is ideal as a personal printer for business users and for the education market . |
| 27 | It is recommended for demanding graphics applications such as three-dimensional modelling and visualisation . |
| 28 | It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work . |
| 29 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 30 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |