Example sentences of "is [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no chance of live football league coverage the fight is on for European Cup matches and other internationals . |
| 2 | The pressure is on for immediate safety improvements . |
| 3 | and as the going gets good … the race is on for top jockey … |
| 4 | Sadly this is the last Sharpe , but he is in for major exposure as he comes on to television . |
| 5 | ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’ |
| 6 | According to popular folklore anyone who owns such a picture is in for bad luck . |
| 7 | The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all . |
| 8 | Now that the registration period is over for Interim Development Orders , I presume you have moved into the phase of validating the claims . |
| 9 | Election ‘ 92 : The agonising is over for floating voters |
| 10 | The extraordinary laying is over for another year and the crabs ' progeny , abandoned , must now look after themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll just phone the Nobel Prize Committee and tell them their search is over for another year . ’ |
| 12 | Our Annual General Meeting is over for another year . |
| 13 | Influential fly half and captain Michael Lynagh is out for six weeks with a dislocated left shoulder . |
| 14 | And volume six of ‘ That Loving Feeling ’ is out for incurable romantics everywhere . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Burrows is out for three months after being stretchered off in Tuesday night 's Coca-Cola Cup clash with Crystal Palace . |
| 17 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |