Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whether it 's used for holding a special Christmas arrangement , potpourri , a bowl of fruit or just as handy side table for your guests to put their drinks on , this occasional table will prove indispensable all year round . |
| 2 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 3 | Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so . |
| 4 | The tailwheel must be locked immediately before take-off and remain so until the completion of the landing roll , when it is unlocked for taxying and manoeuvring . |
| 5 | It is recommended for printing word-processed documents and graphics and , Olivetti says , is ideal as a personal printer for business users and for the education market . |
| 6 | It is recommended for demanding graphics applications such as three-dimensional modelling and visualisation . |
| 7 | It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work . |
| 8 | It is used for making small castings . |
| 9 | It is used for breathing , especially when swimming . |
| 10 | It is used for greeting other elephants . |
| 11 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 12 | Since money is a medium of exchange , it is required for conducting transactions . |
| 13 | A COUNCIL has tightened its safety procedures after it was prosecuted for cutting through an 11,000-volt cable . |
| 14 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 15 | It was converted for parachuting by having a rail bolted along the fuselage on to which the rings at the end of the static lines were fixed by a dog-lead clip . |
| 16 | However , it was criticized for continuing the country 's economic expansion programme — risking further damage to the environment and an increase in the gap between rich and poor — and for not offering concrete solutions or even new policy initiatives to tackle the country 's economic and social problems . |
| 17 | It was used for casting small , quite intricate sculpture pieces and often finished to imitate bronze . |
| 18 | It was used for making vessels based on bronze forms as well as for ornaments . |
| 19 | It was used for keeping accounts and also for dedicatory inscriptions . |
| 20 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it was criticised for failing to provide a contents index , and its pictures were said to lack consistency and style . |