Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Institutional shareholders are calling for a change in the trust 's management and an eventual winding up . |
2 | Painting , gluing , varnishing , soldering and similar activities are banned for a while , If magazines or books smell strongly ( usually the ‘ glossy ’ magazines and books with shiny paper ) , read something else . |
3 | Associated with this internationalization of production , sales and purchases have become increasingly international as products are made for a world market rather than for ‘ local ’ national buyers . |
4 | Although ‘ mixed ’ marriages between people of different races or cultures are made for a variety of reasons , conscious and unconscious , some are necessitated by the need to have constant reassurance of difference : for example , a skin of another colour . |
5 | Both groups are calling for a halt to the planning application until a full hydrological survey has been carried out to check the pond would be safe . |
6 | Human rights groups are calling for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death . |
7 | Human rights groups are calling for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death . |
8 | BARBADIAN cricket fans are calling for a boycott of tomorrow 's historic Test match , not because of any anti-South African sentiment but as a protest over the omission of local fast bowler Anderson Cummins . |
9 | Door-to-door sales methods are used for a variety of products , from vacuum cleaners and household goods to cosmetics or double glazing . |
10 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
11 | Tetbury 's one and only bookstore is n't stocking it even though nearby shops are heading for a sellout . |
12 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |
13 | The wordsmiths who put wooden jokes into his speeches are writing for a man who lacks the essential sense of timing for making them . |
14 | ELEVEN soccer fans were arrested for a variety of public order offences following Saturday 's Third Division soccer match between Hartlepool United and Stoke City . |
15 | Pest Control branches were scoured for a bubble big enough to get the van into , and the London East fumigators — Brian Bacon , Ian Buchan and Terry Hart carried out a successful fumigation . |
16 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
17 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
18 | The baths were closed for a fortnight at least , for a complete disinfection , a change of water , much stronger chlorification and new instructions for the cleansing of the feet of would-be bathers and a thorough check-up of the much higher chlorine addition . |
19 | From 1992 – 93 the target was reduced to an 18-month maximum and many districts were aiming for a year or even less . |
20 | An accountant who bought and sold shares worth £250,000 in various public flotations using false names and addresses was jailed for a year and fined £25,000 yesterday . |
21 | A THIEF who stole from cars was jailed for a year yesterday . |
22 | Telephone , television and computer technology are converging and high tech companies are scrambling for a slice of the action . |
23 | Aviation enthusiasts are calling for a memorial to be built on a hillside where a wartime pilot crashed . |
24 | Malcolm Crosby is fighting hard to keep his job at Sunderland , even though the directors are searching for a replacement . |
25 | COHSE argues that most trusts are waiting for a system to prove itself somewhere else before showing their hands — and that PRP will not work unless there is money to fund it . |
26 | In daylight I use exactly the same set-up , except that the betalite bobbins are changed for a daylight type that show up brighter . |
27 | Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes . |
28 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
29 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
30 | Two directors were suspended for a year and the chairman and manager banned from football for good . |