Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 2 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 3 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 4 | You seem to be looking outside for a solution . |
| 5 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Abdominal symptoms in someone with diabetes may become urgent — advice should always be sought sooner for a person with diabetes . |
| 10 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Both the increased cost and the loss in predictive validity will most hurt the poor and disadvantaged , who will be paying more for a test that is less likely to spot unfulfilled native abilities . |
| 14 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 15 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 16 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 17 | He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back . |
| 18 | I sha n't be going anywhere for a while . |
| 19 | It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’ |
| 20 | That will be postponed probably for a fortnight . |
| 21 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 22 | After at least 3 weeks the intervention programme should stop and the baselines be measured again for a period of one week . |
| 23 | McGillicuddy would n't relish the idea of giving up the General Director 's job as European overlord , but he was also sixty and could be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . |
| 24 | He 'll be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . ’ |
| 25 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 26 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ No , I 'll be staying here for a while , sharing the caravan with Boz and Alamena . ’ |
| 28 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 29 | ‘ Then we 'll be travelling together for a couple of stops . |
| 30 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |