Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 2 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 3 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 4 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 5 | Difficulties are smoothed out for pupils by , for example , ensuring that awkward cases do not occur or that the numbers cancel or that the answer is not a fraction . |
| 6 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 7 | A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny . |
| 8 | When Wall Street has indigestion , the world 's market economies are checked out for coronaries . |
| 9 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 10 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 11 | Thus , imposed assessments , either incidentally , when assessments are carried out for selection or evaluation , or deliberately , if they are so designed , can have the effect of controlling the curriculum . |
| 12 | Checks are carried out for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media . |
| 13 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 14 | Analyses have also been carried out for customers , such as Yorkshire Water plc . |
| 15 | More specialised sampling has also been carried out for gold and pathfinder elements ( Edmunds , personal communication October 1989 ) . |
| 16 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
| 17 | With an annual rate of 5,000 unsolicited manuscripts , 90 per cent of which are turned down for publication , the editors are in a good position to choose exactly what is required for ‘ the rose of romance ’ brand-name . |
| 18 | Women , it is widely believed , are turned down for jobs by men who fear that , without warning , they will take time off to have children . |
| 19 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 21 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 22 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 23 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 24 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 25 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 26 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 27 | that need , you know if you 're , unless you live sort of here you 're going up for appointments , doctors , whatever |
| 28 | I want my er if you 're going back for dinner , I want my camera and my film . |
| 29 | They 're going in for papers Wednesday . |
| 30 | Monday we 're going out for dinner . |