Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun pl] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 2 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 3 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 4 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 5 | They need either to win by more than 50 points or rely on Darlington RA beating Bishop Auckland if they are to pip Bishops for the third promotion place from Durham and Northumberland Division One . |
| 6 | You should read this section if you are installing FMS for the first time , or are not sure if you have sufficient global sections and global pages available . |
| 7 | McEvoy , 39 , is back on the amateur circuit after being chosen as England captain , and has been having lessons for the first time ‘ to stimulate my game . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 9 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 10 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 11 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 12 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |