Example sentences of "[coord] it be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sawdoctors claim ( or it 's claimed for them ) that they 're the voice of a young , rural Ireland . |
| 2 | It 's late now , and it 'll be quicker than waiting for a cab — and it 's insured for all drivers . |
| 3 | ‘ In future it will run on Thursdays and it 's designed for people who are a bit shy or who want to protect their anonymity . ’ |
| 4 | In the context of the Act , an association is a company with corporate personality whose members are all corporations , and it is created for the purpose of ‘ promoting harmony of conduct , profitability of the business and trading interests of the members ’ . |
| 5 | Obviously , whilst scanning the letters this set has to be remembered and it is changed for each test . |
| 6 | Finally there is a fifth meaning , which possibly has some evolutionary connection with the fourth meaning , and it is used for the instinctive affection of parents for the offspring . |
| 7 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 8 | Er Mike said in his autobiography that when they got the play and converted it to film , they changed the age of the character for a start , cos in the play it was written in the late fifties by Bill and it was written for a man approaching his forties . |
| 9 | Either local cultivators and pastoralists were cleared from the land completely and it was reserved for European immigrants , or in some cases ( like Uganda and larger parts of Tanganyika ) local cultivators were encouraged , or forced , to grow crops for sale either as export crops or as food crops to feed the mining workforces in southern Africa ( for longer accounts of the processes of settler immigration and colonial policies , see Rodney 1972 ; Palmer & Parsons 1977 ) . |
| 10 | And it was done for the best , although I must admit it did n't turn out like that . |
| 11 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 12 | Articles were placed in the press chronicling the joys of country life ( and — as will be shown — fruitless attempts were made to demonstrate that the rural environment was having a positive effect on the children 's health ) ; talks were given on the radio to parents ; special posters were printed ; and it was arranged for the Queen to visit certain schools in November to publicise the scheme . |
| 13 | The theme chosen was " Creation " , and it was planned for use with 11-year-olds in a team-teaching situation . |
| 14 | However , Indonesia in particular was reluctant to endorse the proposal and it was referred for further discussion at committee level . |
| 15 | It failed to convince the nation that authoritarian methods were necessary to solve Britain 's economic crisis and prevent further political decline , and it was blamed for fomenting the violence and public disorder which became associated with its activities in the 1930s . |
| 16 | But the shop , the store manager knew and it was paid for . |
| 17 | 19E was delicensed on 17 February , but instead of being put into store like the others , it was painted plain red and fitted with primitive snow brooms , which were no more than boards with bristles attached , fitted in place of the lifeguard gates and it was used for sweeping snow in the Croydon area until 31 March 1937 . |
| 18 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 19 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 20 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 21 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 22 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 23 | It 's a bird , but it 's adapted for flight . |
| 24 | It 's a stunning dress but it 's meant for a woman with lots of clothes to ring the changes . |
| 25 | Its wool was not as fine as that of Merinos from Spain , or the southern hemisphere , but it was noted for its hardiness and foraging ability . |
| 26 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 27 | Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one . |
| 28 | But it was criticised for not making a formal reference to the link between the review and accounts and to the availability of the audited accounts . |
| 29 | But it was criticised for failing to provide a contents index , and its pictures were said to lack consistency and style . |
| 30 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |