Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 4 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 5 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 6 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 7 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 8 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 9 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 10 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 11 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 12 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 13 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 14 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 15 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 16 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 17 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 18 | Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ? |
| 19 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 20 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 22 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 23 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 24 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 25 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 26 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 27 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 28 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 29 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
| 30 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |