it was highlighted to police that in this house dangerous dogs had been being bred.

Sky News 30 Nov 09
Say it aloud, as a news reporter, to get the right sound.
The corpus linguist's best friend, Google, offers 5 more examples, using bred, and the WebCorp Web Concordancer and Collocation extractor really only offers "for" to the right as a significant collocation.
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