Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 4 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 5 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 6 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 7 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 8 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 9 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 10 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 11 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 12 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 13 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 14 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 15 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 16 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 17 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 18 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 19 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 20 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 21 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 22 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 24 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 25 | Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ? |
| 26 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 27 | At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned . |
| 28 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 29 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |