Example sentences of "be [verb] for a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position .
2 DEC is rumoured to be pressing for a Unix SVR4 personality on top of OSF/1 : remember it already has SVR4 for its telecomms stuff .
3 As part of the project , tenders will soon be sought for a backbone X25 service which will interlink national public or private networks used for research in European states .
4 Lucerne and Berne , Switzerland 's capital city , can easily be reached for a day 's sightseeing .
5 You 're gon na be fucked for a lift ai n't you ?
6 One hole can often look much like the next , and a newly dug or outlying sett can be mistaken for a fox 's earth .
7 Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets .
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