Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | 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 |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
5 | So the search is on for an acceptable new arrangement for increased French involvement in the military affairs of the alliance . |
6 | If that can happen to one of the most prestigious shopping streets in the world , we can be sure that dispossessin' is in for a good run . |
7 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
8 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
9 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
10 | In my experience , perfect compromises are unusual animals , and I fear that the hon. Gentleman is in for a disillusioning experience if the tax is ever brought into practice . |
11 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
12 | Geoff Wildinson , assistant director for filed work , recognises the SSD is in for a tough time . |
13 | So MacDonald reckons he 's in for a hard night at Broomfield on Tuesday . |
14 | ‘ Mr Drewer 's out for a few minutes — can I help ? ’ his secretary asked . |