Example sentences of "are [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bribes are given to a child for stopping behaving badly , but rewards are given for behaving well . |
| 2 | On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each . |
| 3 | However , the guide-lines normally only provide a starting-point , which the sentencer is free to depart from if this is regarded as appropriate , and provided reasons are given for doing so . |
| 4 | In Canada , LASMO 's shares are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the trading symbol LSO . |
| 5 | If people are honoured for risking their lives in the not obviously useful pursuit of speed records and mountains to climb , why should they not be encouraged to do so in more worthwhile causes ? |
| 6 | According to the Parish Survey some 74% of parishes use Anglican chant at least occasionally , It is to be hoped that their congregations have copies of psalms and canticles which are pointed for singing . |
| 7 | On the LME inter-office trades are registered for clearing as a house cross . |
| 8 | While accountants are criticized for producing excess ‘ short-termism ’ through stressing ROI , they are also accused of ‘ devaluing the future ’ by discounting its importance using DCF . |
| 9 | The Air Forces of the UK , Netherlands and Germany are criticized for continuing low-level flying exercises over the lands of the Innu people on the Labrador-Quebec peninsula . |
| 10 | Joint programmes are arranged for learning in theology , liturgy and music . |
| 11 | And others are cheered for doing well despite personal problems . |
| 12 | Ministers are rebuked for failing to face House on rise |
| 13 | As fat lesbians we are negated for deviating from alternative womanly ideals . |
| 14 | In other words , it seems that some schoolchildren ( boys ) are rewarded for breaking the rules while others ( girls ) are punished for following them . |
| 15 | Frosts and flooding are blamed for causing the damage on more than three thousand miles of the county 's roads . |
| 16 | Books , and the words they contain , are blamed for causing hatred and sorrow in the world . |
| 17 | Businessmen and politicians ( often the same people ) are blamed for overspending on prestige projects — including the president 's $250 million basilica — and for luxurious living . |
| 18 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |
| 19 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 20 | Access methods , in general , are designed for handling small amounts of persistent data . |
| 21 | These feet are designed for catching and killing . |
| 22 | Most multimeters have ranges which are designed for measuring voltage , current and resistance . |
| 23 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
| 24 | Milton 's Paradise Lost or Spenser 's Faerie Queene are applauded for bringing a sophisticated use of classical epic conventions into English , creating national works which stand comparison with those of antiquity . |
| 25 | Segmentation , too , has proved very versatile ; individual pairs of legs , or appendages , can be specialized for particular functions without affecting the routine business of locomotion taken by the others ; appendages are modified for feeding in a host of ways , for grasping , swimming , spinning , copulating , cleaning or camouflaging . |
| 26 | Thus in the Gryllotalpidae , the Scarabaeidae and some others the fore legs are modified for burrowing , and in the Mantidae , Phymatidae and Mantispidae for seizing and holding the prey . |
| 27 | Four young girls are hanged for smuggling dynamite to blow up an Auschwitz crematorium . |
| 28 | Only the top two leaves of the plant and the bud are harvested for making into tea . |
| 29 | One such policy is ‘ set-aside ’ , preferably in the form of ‘ conservation agreements ’ such as have been made in the USA , whereby farmers are compensated for diverting land from arable cropping into pasture or woodland . |
| 30 | If your plants , cordon or bush varieties , are destined for enhancing the patio — in pots , growing bags or hanging baskets — consign them to their containers about two weeks later . |