Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
2 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
3 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
4 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
5 | So the search is on for an acceptable new arrangement for increased French involvement in the military affairs of the alliance . |