Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the opposition were out for 171 , the CCG team reached the required total with two overs to spare , largely thanks to an opening stand of 95 by Jeremy Hook and Philip McKenna . |
| 2 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll just phone the Nobel Prize Committee and tell them their search is over for another year . ’ |
| 4 | Fish and chips , council housing , State pensions and holidays at home were out for all the young . |
| 5 | Election ‘ 92 : The agonising is over for floating voters |
| 6 | But within months , he was telling friends his marriage was over for good . |
| 7 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 8 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 9 | Now that the registration period is over for Interim Development Orders , I presume you have moved into the phase of validating the claims . |
| 10 | Our Annual General Meeting is over for another year . |
| 11 | According to popular folklore anyone who owns such a picture is in for bad luck . |
| 12 | The actor was out for seventy-five big ones . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 14 | and as the going gets good … the race is on for top jockey … |
| 15 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 16 | At least the terror is over for 42 other children in the ambushed bus . |
| 17 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |
| 18 | The England captain was out for eight — his middle stump uprooted — as a second innings collapse to 34 for three left his side struggling to avoid a 3-0 Test series whitewash . |
| 19 | He says he 'll continue to wind the church clock — but a twenty four year old labour of love is over for good . |
| 20 | On the last day the jury was out for thirty minutes . |
| 21 | The pressure is on for immediate safety improvements . |
| 22 | With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget . |
| 23 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 24 | With no chance of live football league coverage the fight is on for European Cup matches and other internationals . |
| 25 | The extraordinary laying is over for another year and the crabs ' progeny , abandoned , must now look after themselves . |
| 26 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 27 | Time 's up for greedy banks |
| 28 | Time 's up for greedy banks |
| 29 | It 's fuckin typical , just when we were on a role , our most important player is out for 6–8 weeks and his next in line is sold . |