Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 2 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 3 | And put together , all the legal paperwork that had to be filled out for the approval was 31 metres long . |
| 4 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 5 | This could also be carried out for the polymer , but as it makes no difference which one is taken ( both having started from ΔG M ) , equation ( 8.33 ) is more convenient to use . |
| 6 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
| 7 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 8 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | Additions were made at regular intervals and there was a pleasing rule that , even if a Sunday School scholar was unable to read , a book might nevertheless be lent out for the benefit of the family . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future . |
| 14 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 15 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 16 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 17 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 18 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 19 | However , the recommendations of its members have indicated that the way will be opened up for the abandonment of most restrictions . |
| 20 | At a frank meeting with the above , at which this community 's concerns were forcefully put , it was agreed that work would halt during our community festival and that the area would be cleaned up for the festival . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 22 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 23 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 24 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 25 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 26 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 27 | Well I have to go now or I shall be roped in for the sacrifice and I do n't like getting my hands dirty . |
| 28 | The latest speakers to be firmed up for the conference are David Pascall , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , who will speak at the general assembly session on The New Generation — A Strategy for Reading , and Simon Lang of the Henley Centre for Forecasting , who will be a speaker at the general assembly on The Future of the Book . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |