Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
| 2 | If you are recalled for a second interview it is worth changing to a different outfit altogether if you can afford it or have something else suitable . |
| 3 | This requires firms that are approached for a second opinion to contact the auditor to see if there are any relevant facts that they ought to know . |
| 4 | One try resulted in a pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage , but the couple are saving for a second try . |
| 5 | Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy . |
| 6 | Soccer : Border League Wormingford FC are looking for a first team manager for next season . |
| 7 | But if you are looking for a 21st century Polo , you will have to wait at least three years until the genuinely all-new one . |
| 8 | The good news is that plans have been made for a third building . |
| 9 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 10 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 11 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 12 | A COUPLE who suffered a catalogue of tragedies are set for a second honeymoon in the Austrian mountains . |
| 13 | You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future . |
| 14 | In January 1984 , the Chairman of the ESRC visited Belfast and announced that a further £480,000 was to be committed for a second phase of the programme . |
| 15 | The single charge upon which Barry was convicted alleged that he had possessed cocaine between Nov. 7 and Nov. 10 , 1989 , an offence which carried a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of $100,000 , although it was extremely rare for a prison sentence to be imposed for a first offence of this nature . |
| 16 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 17 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 18 | In short , we should be arguing for a third zero within NATO . |
| 19 | Disagreement over the wording of the joint statement led the talks to be extended for a third day . |
| 20 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the lesbian and gay rights campaign , said now the idea of a common age of consent had been supported for a fourth time , he hope that the leadership would finally accept the commitment and ensure it went into the manifesto . |
| 21 | It was like some ghoulish rerun of Sunday afternoon , as if the same sequence in a film was being shot for a second time under a different director . |
| 22 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 23 | There is no question of leave being granted for a second appeal . |
| 24 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 25 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 26 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 27 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 28 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 29 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 30 | The talks were extended for a third day after the Japanese agreed to drop the nuclear inspection demand during the current session . |