Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [noun] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 2 | There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 3 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 4 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
| 5 | As Jennings ( 1982 , p. 67 ) has observed , most councillors are backbenchers , not policy-makers , and about the only vital service they see themselves doing is casework for their constituents . |