Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're under starters orders for the National Hunt season . |
| 2 | The black population has been under police surveillance for a long time . |
| 3 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |
| 4 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 5 | I 've been in police custody for the last thirty-six hours . |
| 6 | It frightened me to think that my name and address and those of the other members were on police files for no other reason than that we were gay . |
| 7 | Many of these conserved amino acid residues are at positions characteristic for type III repeats ( Fig. 2 ) . |