Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 2 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 3 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 4 | Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years . |
| 5 | Wearing a blue blazer , a white open-necked shirt and jeans , Newall listened intently as his lawyer battled to stop him being sent for trial in Britain . |
| 6 | So it is fair to say it was granted for intellectual activities . |