Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , sea-trout never give themselves up easily ; you have to know your loch and be prepared to hunt for where the fish lie ; so be prepared for a lot of rowing , and a lot of finger-crossing on Oscaig . |
| 2 | That situation can only be tolerated for a while and following the Bank 's offer of 3% last June a series of consultation meetings with members overwhelmingly rejected the offer . |
| 3 | Because flat-rate unemployment benefit can only be drawn for a maximum of a year , a large number of today 's unemployed find themselves having to draw means-tested assistance . |
| 4 | As part of the project , tenders will soon be sought for a backbone X25 service which will interlink national public or private networks used for research in European states . |
| 5 | As Marslen-Wilson ( 1986 ) has pointed out , the concept of a recognition point , i.e. the point at which a word becomes discriminable within the language system , can not be determined for a word in isolation . |
| 6 | Who not be hung for a sheep as for a lamb . |
| 7 | Public examinations , employers ' , schools ' and colleges ' own assessments and profiles , such as that described in Example D , are used to decide whether a pupil will or will not be accepted for a job , vocational training or higher education . |
| 8 | Next year parents whose residual income is below £11,500 will not be assessed for a contribution . |
| 9 | You can not be disconnected for a Hire Purchase debt , a Credit Sale Agreement , or a debt for anything other than supply of gas and or electricity . |
| 10 | The trustee can not be sued for a dividend , but if he refused to pay a dividend , the court may order him to pay it together with , out of his own funds , interest at judgment rate and costs ( s 325(2) ) . |
| 11 | I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries . |
| 12 | It stated , there is no reason why your long serving member should not be nominated for a merit award . |
| 13 | The same method can not be used for a polymer and one must resort to comparative techniques . |
| 14 | But such individuals can not be recommended for a home with children . |
| 15 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 16 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Mr Postlethwaite could not be located for a comment . |
| 18 | Is not the timing of that exercise particularly insensitive , and is there any reason why it should not be postponed for a period of , say , a week as a mark of respect to the crew of the Antares , all of whom perished when the vessel was sunk ? |
| 19 | This list does not include unusual or specialised weapons such as repeater hand guns , Goblin Fanatic ball and chain , etc , and such weapons may not be chosen for a character . |
| 20 | Lucerne and Berne , Switzerland 's capital city , can easily be reached for a day 's sightseeing . |
| 21 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |
| 22 | This is why coaxial cable can more easily be used for a switched-star system , where the cable runs a short distance from switching station to TV set . |
| 23 | If any authorities do not succeed tomorrow , they may still be considered for a share of the extra allocation of £7.5 million next year . |
| 24 | Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that . |
| 25 | A firm may also be restricted for a period from accepting certain types of new appointments without the committee 's consent . |
| 26 | This 'd probably be used for a construction of some sort I would imagine . |
| 27 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 28 | The acquisition of the share capital of a private company which is not widely held and is capable of being concluded by private contract will often be considered for a dispensation . |
| 29 | It looks like a college , and might even be mistaken for a supermarket . |
| 30 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |