Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Eagle Star has been badly hit for the same reason ; their profits are down 170,000,000 to just 9,000,000 . |
| 2 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 4 | But they have requested the two-storey shop units in Clark 's Yard are not used for the same type of shops already there , to prevent competition for existing business . |
| 5 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 6 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 7 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 8 | Overall the event was a major success and has already been provisionally booked for the same venue year . |
| 9 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 10 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 11 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 12 | In spite of the vast array of clinical and pathological features which help predict patient outcome , individual tumour behaviour can still not be accurately determined for the most patients who fall into Dukes 's stage B and C1 , with 77% and 41% 5 year survival respectively . |
| 13 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 14 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 15 | As a result , the council having declined to give an undertaking , the interlocutory injunction was discharged ; and your Lordships were informed that the interlocutory injunctions granted in about 100 other cases were likewise discharged for the same reason . |
| 16 | Any tail string which uses the divergent node number is also removed for the same reason . |
| 17 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 18 | Normally , each hair follicle goes through a resting phase ( telogen ) every few years : hair stops growing , falls out and is n't replaced for a few months . |
| 19 | In addition , while many , if not all , children are likely to take GCSE examinations in the most popular subjects of Maths and English , the examination is primarily designed for the same population as covered by O-level and CSE , namely the top 60 per cent or so . |
| 20 | ‘ We used to share the same office and we can work together in the same environment , but not when we are actually working for the same clients , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 23 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 24 | An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose . |
| 25 | A ban on strike action which was also proposed for the same period , with heavy fines for offenders , had been dropped by the parliamentary labour committee when it became clear that it would receive no support , but fines for unofficial strikes were increased . |
| 26 | Beeney was well positioned for the few shots he had to take . |
| 27 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |