Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of |
| 2 | A baby would get born and an upstairs window be lit at night : an old man would die and the hearse arrive , and a gap be felt for a while , but the very pressure of ordinariness , or whatever it was , soon healed it up . |
| 3 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 4 | Different majorities could no doubt be found for a diversity of schemes for Northern Ireland , unlike the case in either Scotland or Wales , but this is not the problem there . |
| 5 | Only by a greater yield from the land could a growing population be supported , and savings and a market be created for a resumption of ‘ lost ’ industrial prosperity . |