Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , sea-trout never give themselves up easily ; you have to know your loch and be prepared to hunt for where the fish lie ; so be prepared for a lot of rowing , and a lot of finger-crossing on Oscaig . |
| 2 | That situation can only be tolerated for a while and following the Bank 's offer of 3% last June a series of consultation meetings with members overwhelmingly rejected the offer . |
| 3 | Because flat-rate unemployment benefit can only be drawn for a maximum of a year , a large number of today 's unemployed find themselves having to draw means-tested assistance . |
| 4 | As part of the project , tenders will soon be sought for a backbone X25 service which will interlink national public or private networks used for research in European states . |
| 5 | Lucerne and Berne , Switzerland 's capital city , can easily be reached for a day 's sightseeing . |
| 6 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |
| 7 | This is why coaxial cable can more easily be used for a switched-star system , where the cable runs a short distance from switching station to TV set . |
| 8 | If any authorities do not succeed tomorrow , they may still be considered for a share of the extra allocation of £7.5 million next year . |
| 9 | Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that . |
| 10 | A firm may also be restricted for a period from accepting certain types of new appointments without the committee 's consent . |
| 11 | This 'd probably be used for a construction of some sort I would imagine . |
| 12 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 13 | The acquisition of the share capital of a private company which is not widely held and is capable of being concluded by private contract will often be considered for a dispensation . |
| 14 | It looks like a college , and might even be mistaken for a supermarket . |
| 15 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 16 | And you might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb , as doubtless they say on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 17 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 18 | VR1 should then be adjusted for a reading of exactly 1,000 . |
| 19 | The seaweed should then be left for a month . |
| 20 | Some land will therefore be zoned for a use which is profitable for the owner , whereas other land will be zoned for a use having a low , or even nil , private value . |
| 21 | A new house , costing let us say £480 ( higher than the national average cost of houses being built in 1937 , then £427 ) , could therefore be purchased for a deposit of £24 , with repayments of 13s 6d per week over 20 years . |