Example sentences of "[vb pp] in for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport .
2 While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry .
3 Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism .
4 Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in .
5 But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery .
6 Changing machines means a new contract , so the company are locked in for a fresh term , again of up to nine years .
7 Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] .
8 On March 5 Sharad Pawar was sworn in for a further term as Congress ( I ) Chief Minister .
9 Congress ( I ) retained power in Maharashtra in the State Assembly elections in February 1990 and Sharad Pawar was sworn in for a further term as Chief Minister [ see p. 37245 ] .
10 The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister .
11 Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister on June 29 at the head of a CPI(M)-led government .
12 Congress ( I ) retained control of the State Assembly in Arunachal Pradesh in elections held in February 1990 , and Agong Apang was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in March [ see pp. 37245 ] .
13 The CPI(M) was returned to power in State Assembly elections held in May 1991 ; Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in June [ see p. 38287 ] .
14 President Hafez al-Assad was sworn in for a fourth term in office on March 12 .
15 This is a hybrid case in Banbury erm the opting out legislation was brought in for a specific purpose .
16 Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation .
17 Ugly as Corryhully Lodge is , you would n't say no to being asked in for a cold beer as you passed , as long as no one you knew saw you go in .
18 If you are lucky you might get a codex thrown in for a good measure for telecomms application .
19 And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three .
20 If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours .
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