Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 2 | Judge Bruce Laughland ordered last week that the boy should be detained for three months . |
| 3 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 4 | He was immediately ruled out of tomorrow 's home match with Nottingham Forest — and could be sidelined for three weeks . |
| 5 | But when magistrates told her she 'd be jailed for three months , she collapsed in the dock . |
| 6 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 7 | There would also be a short term pension payable er and this would be paid for three months at the rate of your pension or pay at the time of death . |
| 8 | One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks . |
| 9 | Under the plan , sale of shares to third persons would be banned for three years , but after that period could be bought and sold on the stock exchange . |
| 10 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 11 | After Easter the hours are extended as follows : Tickets reserved by phone will be held for three days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |