Example sentences of "[num] [pron] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 2 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 3 | Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million , with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 4 | Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts . |
| 5 | Further deletions which leave less than 90bp of the promoter result in a very low level of expression , suggesting the presence of a basic promoter element between -90 and -70 which is required for expression in this heterologous cell type . |
| 6 | The staff drifted in slowly , and finally at around ten-thirty everyone was accounted for . |
| 7 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 8 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course . |
| 10 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 11 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 12 | In July 1964 he was fined for singing the Irish national anthem , ‘ A Soldier 's Song ’ ( in Irish ) at a republican rally in Ballycastle , County Antrim . |
| 13 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 14 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 15 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 16 | In 1950 he was knighted for his services to Greek ( he had been appointed MBE in 1919 ) . |
| 17 | Fifty-eight lots were sold for $16.1 million ( £10.73 million ) , with fourteen other lots left without buyers . |
| 18 | The research follows an earlier ( 1987 ) successful study of the same issues for the period c.1660-1770 which was financed for three months byu The Nuffield Foundation and aided by a British Academy grant for travel and consumables . |
| 19 | By section 6 they were offered for sale if they were ‘ exposed for supply ’ ( see paragraph 16–12 above ) . |
| 20 | In 1830 he was elected for the government borough of Rye and the following year was active as Tory assistant whip . |
| 21 | The tunnel was a failure both financially and in terms of use , being intended for pedestrians , and in 1865 it was converted for use by the London Underground . |
| 22 | It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it . |
| 23 | Please can I have my twenty five I 'm owed for like two weeks ? |
| 24 | The modules are structured into five levels , from Module 1 which is designed for complete beginners through to Module 5 , in which students attain a level of competence some way above that required for a pass at SEB Higher Grade . |
| 25 | You mean five squared , you mean five times five equals twenty five you 're looking for five squared , so that 's the right thing to write ! |
| 26 | 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items : |
| 27 | sixty five we 're looking for |
| 28 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 29 | At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind . |
| 30 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |