Example sentences of "be [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension . |
| 2 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 3 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 4 | Recall and precision scores are calculated for each search . |
| 5 | Index figures are calculated for each artist in each succeeding year . |
| 6 | If you are dismissed for some other reason unconnected with redundancy , you will have to consider whether the circumstances justify an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 7 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 8 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 9 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 10 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 11 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 12 | Figures are given for each local authority , showing numbers and proportions of residents aged under 65 , and 65+ , supported in each type of accommodation . |
| 13 | Example tasks are given for each skill in relation to a particular content area . |
| 14 | Lists are given for each centre . |
| 15 | Median and interquartile ( 25th to 75th centiles ) range ( IQR ) values are given for each group , since the data do not conform to a Gaussian distribution . |
| 16 | Logically they apply to tenants as well as to owner-occupiers and are given for all displacements , whether by compulsory purchase or any action under the Housing Acts . |
| 17 | A number of different dates are given for these events in Molla Husrev 's career by various authors , both early and late . |
| 18 | Instructions are given for several neckbands , but everyone has their own pet neckband . |
| 19 | These auxiliaries may be used when required at the discretion of the individual cataloguer ( unlike DC where specific instructions are given for most applications of the Tables or the ‘ add to ’ device ) . |
| 20 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 21 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 22 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 23 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
| 24 | The toffee , too , had been intended for another . |
| 25 | The card had really been intended for those regularly bought by a mad old lady to be laid beside the bust of Karl Marx in his local cemetery . |
| 26 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 27 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 28 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 29 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 30 | For instance , treatments are listed for such conditions as suppurative pneumonia , cerebral oedema and purulent nephritis , obviously requiring highly skilled veterinary care and sometimes remedies at the highest potencies . |