Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 2 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 3 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 4 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 5 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 6 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 7 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 8 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 9 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 10 | Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) . |
| 11 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 12 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 13 | An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts . |
| 14 | However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels . |
| 15 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
| 16 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 18 | Secondary education had been provided only for a minority . |
| 19 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 20 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 21 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 22 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 23 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
| 24 | For example a bilingual fieldworker acceptable to an Asian community in Britain would probably need to be selected carefully for a range of characteristics such as religion , geographical provenance , or political affiliation , all of which are associated with a distinctive ethnicity . |
| 25 | Abdominal symptoms in someone with diabetes may become urgent — advice should always be sought sooner for a person with diabetes . |
| 26 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 27 | He holds pubs in thrall to his Welsh past — the stories which would be told afresh for a lifetime now emerge in their first edition — and his childhood , far from seeming a ball and chain in this airy court of privilege , glowed into a magic kingdom to match any of them . |
| 28 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 29 | That will be postponed probably for a fortnight . |
| 30 | After at least 3 weeks the intervention programme should stop and the baselines be measured again for a period of one week . |