Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 2 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 3 | A delusion and a vain hope are opened up for us , so we can witness their terrible results . |
| 4 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 5 | And shell-shocked manager Khalid Mahmood admitted after his side were bowled out for 165 and a shattering 198-run defeat : ‘ That was n't batting , it was butchery . |
| 6 | Pott Shrigley had the highest score of the day in the division with 171–9 at Holmes Chapel before the home side were bowled out for 86 . |
| 7 | Along with cash in hand , and the rent being paid up for a month , that should be travelling money enough . |
| 8 | The 21,906 children who entered the Survival Study were followed up for 33,287 child-years ( 16,508 vitamin A group , 16,779 placebo group ) . |
| 9 | Kumar has retained his position at St Andrew 's despite the club being put up for sale last month after his business empire went into receivership . |
| 10 | BIRMINGHAM CITY manager Terry Cooper yesterday claimed that chairman Samesh Kumar kept him in the dark about the club being put up for sale . |
| 11 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 12 | Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world . |
| 13 | With laboratory test results negative for HIV infection , AIDS is ruled out for surveillance purposes unless the patient has had : |
| 14 | A whole pig is served up for the main New Year feast , and bean curd , sausages and special wine are prepared . |
| 15 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 16 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 17 | Mummy 's coming back for you two . |
| 18 | The purpose of this chapter is to open up for discussion some of the complex and ambivalent reactions which exist in us all towards old age and old people . |
| 19 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 20 | Now Michael has written a new stage play Brother Mine which , as the title suggests , tells of two brothers named Nicky and Freddie whose resemblance to the real thing , as we see as the piece is acted out for Alfred 's approval in the second act . |
| 21 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 22 | My rent is paid up for six months . |
| 23 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 24 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 25 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 26 | Everybody agrees that the present rate of inflation would justify a cut in interest rates — British industry is crying out for one . |
| 27 | The information industry is crying out for simplification and struggles desperately under the burden of its own complex , often incomprehensible jargon . |
| 28 | It is also clear from Walkley v Precision Forgings [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 606 and Chappell v Cooper [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 463 that where the plaintiff commences an action during the primary s11 or s12 limitation period but then puts himself in a position where he can not pursue it , for instance by letting his writ expire without service or delaying so much that his action is struck out for want of prosecution , the court will have no power to exercise s33 discretion , since it is the plaintiff 's own action or default which has prejudiced him and not the operation of s11 or 12 . |
| 29 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 30 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |