Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 2 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 3 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 4 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 5 | The forecasts are given for a height of 10m or 33ft above ground . |
| 6 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 7 | Times may be hard in those places , but note how few people are clamouring for a return to the let's-stay-poor-together socialism of the past . |
| 8 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 9 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 10 | From Lovell 's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons . |
| 11 | Another worker has been sacked for a shoplifting offence in a local store . |
| 12 | Because the vast majority of fibres have been treated for a machine wash , shrinkage is minimal . |
| 13 | We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly . |
| 14 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 15 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 16 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 17 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 18 | The long term view that is required for mineral exploitation means that planning permissions have generally been given for a working with a long life commonly not less than fifteen years , and , on occasion , up to sixty years . |
| 19 | The form of T k has been given for a variety of cosmological models in refs 19 , 28 . |
| 20 | At their next meeting instructions had been given for a rendezvous . |
| 21 | An encouraging development is that the opportunity has been given for a submission to be made in early autumn on behalf of the preserved railway movement to the House of Commons Select Committee which will be dealing with the Government 's privatisation proposals . |
| 22 | Free kick has been given for a foul on Oldfield . |
| 23 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 24 | Later Seddon telephoned to tell me that a young man — actually a volunteer from the Metropolitan police — had duly appeared at Southend , and had been remanded for a week . |
| 25 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 27 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 28 | I am , at present I am applying for a job on the |
| 29 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 30 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |