Example sentences of "he is [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 2 | In his design he is credited for seeing that ‘ auditorium planning need not be inconsistent with good architecture ’ . |
| 3 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 4 | Yet if a supervisor is too vigilant , he is lambasted for sheltering banks from the discipline of the market or the effects of their own blunders . |
| 5 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |
| 6 | He is blamed for ordering the army crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 . |
| 7 | If the player tampers with those , he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation . |
| 8 | If he is reported for striking with the boot then he 's liable for a three month ban . |
| 9 | Finally the contemplative grows to recognise that in his life of love for God the being of God is extended in time : " he is gifte for to knowen and lufen him " ( Scale 2 , 34.111r. – 264 ) . |
| 10 | As lieutenant-governor , he is remembered for fleeing down the statehouse fire escape to avoid senators ' anger over his choice of committee assignments . |