Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the £21m it intends to raise is earmarked for 15 new stores this year and a further 45 in 1994 . |
| 2 | Half the £21m it intends to raise is earmarked for opening 15 new Poundstretcher stores this year and a further 45 in 1994 . |
| 3 | A much more radical proposal was under active consideration ( Home Office , 1999d ) shortly before the guide-lines were issued , though this appears to have been shelved for the time being . |
| 4 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 5 | Cesar appears to have been destined for a clerical career from the start . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 7 | A similar sum is expected for a landscape drawing by Fra Bartolommeo entitled ‘ A farm on a ridge ’ , dating from 1508 , which , like other similar landscape drawings by the artist , appears to have been drawn for pleasure . |
| 8 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 9 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 10 | There was the Crown Colony system which seems to have been designed for the business of not getting things done . |
| 11 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 12 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |