Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] for they " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their births a trust a fund of tens of thousands of pound was started for them in their names by their grandmother . |
| 2 | When they did enough to earn wages , they were allowed to keep or spend half , the other half being saved for them on their release . |
| 3 | Also in the intertidal zones , animals find that much of their work is done for them . |
| 4 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 5 | Now talking of freebies , they could actually watch a cage being drilled for them as part of it . |
| 6 | Certain sociological facts and considerations are rather hastily admitted , usually in a received and well-worn form , and some minor place is reserved for them . |
| 7 | The forms tell strongly on the curving surface and the figure-zone is widened for them , its background left bare or scattered with small flower-shapes , a calyx of pointed leaves or petals at the base and the areas of fine lines reduced to narrow borders of two or three ( figs. 7 and 8 ) . |
| 8 | A good hot meal is delivered to their home ( the number of meals per week depending on the staff and resources in each area ) and a modest charge is made for them . |
| 9 | A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them . |
| 10 | The picture was provided for them in terms of medical explanations with patterns of behaviour , development , and any personal or emotional problems accounted for by their medical condition . |
| 11 | These privileges were enjoyed by the king 's grace , and not of right ; various payments in money , produce or labour service were made for them . |
| 12 | Someone even told me there was a place in Durance 's studio at the house where the stuff was left for them . |
| 13 | Litres of beer were ordered for them all to drink . |
| 14 | But many Sainsbury 's products will carry nutrition information — even though no special nutrition claim is made for them . |
| 15 | The most successful group in Britain at this time was Frankie Goes To Hollywood whose career was manufactured for them . |
| 16 | They have no right , that is , that the collective power of the state be used for them or not be used against them just in virtue of what a legislature or another court has decided in the past . |
| 17 | Again , space was provided for them to say in what ways and the following typify what was written : |
| 18 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 19 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 20 | People may not remember whatever detailed analysis was developed for them as schoolchildren , but certain models or ‘ general sketches ’ … do remain , and they inform everyday thinking closely , especially as they are exercised over and again by politicians and the media seeking to make public sense of current events . |
| 21 | Although we should be wary of taking all such accounts at face value , since party feeling often ran sufficiently high amongst local inhabitants that little encouragement was needed for them to come to blows , such practices certainly did go on . |
| 22 | A given work of literature is related for them to literature in general , and not to the personality of its author . |
| 23 | In so far , therefore , as the deaf and dumb desire to be independent and to have some say in all matters which directly concern themselves , educationally , spiritually and socially , ample opportunity is provided for them in this their own Association . |
| 24 | What they have in common is that with still rare and recent exceptions their main role has been to consume whatever problem is identified for them . |
| 25 | No affection was felt for them , for they were consistently rebarbative . |
| 26 | The original records were of paper unsuitable for permanent records , but in 1597 an order was given for them to be written on parchment . |
| 27 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 28 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 29 | The property in Cumberland Street , Woodbridge , has become the subject of a possession order with a summons being issued for them to quit . |
| 30 | A degree of interaction between themselves and their source is required for them to act in this capacity . |