Example sentences of "[be] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should remember that it would all have ended seven matches earlier if it had not been for an 88th-minute equaliser against Bashley on September 16 . |
| 2 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 3 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 4 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 5 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 6 | Their proposals for ‘ Port of Tyne North ’ ( the White hill Point site of the Port of Tyne Authority ) are for an arena , marina , riverside village and exhibition space . |
| 7 | The numbers given in Table 4.2 are for an imaginary field in , say , January . |
| 8 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 9 | Thus the Commission saw these two vital controls on police power : the arrest had to be for an imprisonable offence and it had also , in addition to this , to be ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 10 | On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude . |
| 11 | Along with alterations to the lineout , the amendment is to be for an experimental twelve months only . |
| 12 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 13 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 14 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 15 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 16 | They include an original maturity of no more than 187 days , be payable within the UK and be for an identifiable underlying trade transaction . |
| 17 | To meet objections to this , the Commission added that an individual should only be held where , quite apart from being for an ‘ arrestable offence ’ , the arrest was also ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 19 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 20 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 21 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 22 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |
| 23 | Who 's for an ostrich leg ? |
| 24 | And that 's for an engineering department 's head of engineering , so you I I doubt whether a careers officers |
| 25 | And I thought well , it 's for an engagement present , just sort of two |
| 26 | Today catalogues raisonnés are often divided into two ; one volume is for an introduction and plates , while the other has the detailed catalogue . |
| 27 | His next stop is for an interferon shot . |
| 28 | His personal preference is for an elected second chamber . |
| 29 | Its quest is for an active invention of a whole pattern of ‘ effective partnerships ’ , to help Northerners and northern agencies of all kinds to work together in a co-operative of enlightened self-interest . |
| 30 | Often the easiest way out is for an infringer to design around the claims of a patent , for instance by changing vital features . |