Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower band width ISDN services will be rolled out for home use . ’ |
| 2 | But they may be booked up for Christmas day . |
| 3 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 4 | The length of the cable then rests on the staples and can always be lifted off for painting and cleaning . |
| 5 | Oral extensions to some exercises can be written out for homework . |
| 6 | The provision of copied material is expensive in resources and in time , but can facilitate work for pupils who have problems with distance vision , and a bank of basic material can be built up for future as well as current usage . |
| 7 | And I take it the police still have his case more or less open , and will be looking out for news of him , in case there 's something more in it . |
| 8 | As two days are allocated for the match in order to obtain a result , refunds can not be made and nor can tickets be accepted back for exchange or re-sale . |
| 9 | He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . |
| 10 | THE South West Thames regional health authority requested the army be drafted in for ambulance work when it became clear the police could not cope , according to ambulance mangement . |
| 11 | When they hear it rumoured that the hotel is to be sold off for development they turn to crime to finance their own take-over bid … = From the writers of Cabaret , Chicago and New York , New York , this show is a triumphant affirmation of life and vitality with a full Broadway score of wit , understanding and humour . |
| 12 | Came a point where the headaches and the rasping voice were not to be bought off for love nor money . |
| 13 | Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , will join his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas , in insisting that the two Lockerbie suspects be handed over for trial in the West . |
| 14 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 15 | On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters . |
| 16 | Panorama will enable users to keep windows open and processes going off-screen that would otherwise have to be closed down for lack of space . |
| 17 | While one country may be geared up for credit cards with hole-in-the wall machines everywhere you look , another may only accept local currency or travellers cheques . |
| 18 | However , Byron Nelson , 79 , has a new hip and may be called on for duty . |
| 19 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 20 | The selectivity and control of conscious attention remains poorly understood ; very clearly it is not at all coextensive with information processing for much of this is never observed and can not be summoned up for examination . |
| 21 | How much land must you commit to arable rotation , and how much must be laid up for hay or silage ? |
| 22 | Instructions for the ploughman " deossum seminari debeat " ( when land is to be laid down for grass ) , to treat in the furrow with his left foot . |
| 23 | There are many derelict and run-down houses and empty spaces where houses have had to be pulled down for safety . |
| 24 | Each week , a comedian from the '50s or '60s would be wheeled in for cameo relief ( eg Jimmy Jewel , Peggy Mount , Arthur English ) as a cantankerous alcoholic old patient , and you were guaranteed one horrifying accident per 60 minutes . |
| 25 | Horses often display these signs when asked to perform a difficult movement , and will be marked down for resistance in a dressage test . |
| 26 | Must be coming up for school dinner-time . ’ |
| 27 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 28 | Asked if the death penalty should be brought back for terrorist murderers , a majority supported its return . |
| 29 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 30 | A fifth CNAA Committee would be set up for Art and Design , and pending a reconstitution of the Council 's committees and boards in 1975 the present NCDAD members were being asked to serve as a nucleus of the future committee . |