Example sentences of "be [verb] for [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 2 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 3 | ECOLOGICAL Development , an organisation set up to promote environmentally-friendly housing , are looking for anyone with a desire to build their own home in a ‘ Green Village ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 5 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 6 | Tetanus immunity should be checked for anyone with a cut or deep scratch . |
| 7 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 8 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think Fred 'd be looking for anything as a return . |
| 10 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 11 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 12 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 13 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 14 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 15 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 16 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 17 | I 've been longing for something with a bit of bite to it . ’ |
| 18 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |
| 19 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 20 | It would work fine if the bass E head was changed for one with a shorter post , like that of the A string . |