Example sentences of "[be] on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 4 | ‘ You 're on for a fiver . ’ |
| 5 | Win a weekend away The search is on for a photo of Britain 's best windowbox , basket or tub . |
| 6 | So the search is on for a more durable , ‘ horizontal ’ resistance to a variety of races of a pest . |
| 7 | Her mother wo n't survive … so the hunt is on for a fostermum . |
| 8 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 9 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 10 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
| 11 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 12 | THE search is on for a dog fit for a queen and the auditions are to be held in Darlington . |
| 13 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 14 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 15 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |