Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma .
2 More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests .
3 Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out .
4 Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed .
5 The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell .
6 The forecasts are given for a height of 10m or 33ft above ground .
7 No guidelines are given for the interpretation of s8 except that the term to be included must have been a fair and reasonable one having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of , the parties when the contract was made ( s11(1) ) .
8 All sorts of reasons are given for the lack of enthusiasm in schools for physical science and technology , but never that which might be the fundamental one .
9 Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own .
10 Instruction and supervision are given for the MSc French Studies , in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , and the department also collaborates in the MSc programmes in Comparative Literature European Film Studies and Medieval Languages .
11 In Section 10.4 estimates are given for the intensity of gravitational radiation on Earth from various sources ; finally in Section 10.5 current detector designs , which appear capable of detecting waves from supernovae in our Galaxy , are described .
12 This gives a breakdown of their main holiday-based activities and similar financial details are given for the holiday firms discussed in Table 11.1 .
13 The young people who come into care are drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged and though many reasons are given for the move , frequently it is the inability of the family to cope with illness , bereavement , divorce or remarriage .
14 The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment .
15 The latter had been intended for the scrap-yard a short while earlier .
16 She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned .
17 These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery .
18 As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench .
19 The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day .
20 The cottage had not been inhabited for a while .
21 To compensate a bit for the loss , Greatest Hits from that long and illustrious lineage — ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ and its copains — have been gathered for the nonce in a smaller space elsewhere in the museum .
22 From Lovell 's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons .
23 Another worker has been sacked for a shoplifting offence in a local store .
24 No systematic survey of vegetation , habitat , or species losses due to agricultural development has been undertaken for the whole of the UK uplands , nor is one planned .
25 A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners .
26 Because the vast majority of fibres have been treated for a machine wash , shrinkage is minimal .
27 All had two or more close relatives who had been treated for the disease .
28 The results of applying the market model to these data are shown in Fig. 6.7 , where the ex-post returns have been plotted against betas which have been adjusted for the changes in the cash holdings of the unit trusts : Ward and Saunders argue that these managerial decisions are particularly important in determining unit trust performance .
29 Tables of mortality and morbidity values for spatial areas are apparently simple to interpret ; however , unless such data are adjusted for the age-structure of the populations of those areas , any conclusions drawn will remain questionable .
30 By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax .
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