Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bootle and Oxton players are unavailable for the match in which Liverpool 's Andy McDowell comes in for Barry Metcalf who has been picked for the Wales side against Dorset . |
| 2 | De Franco was appointed president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua replacing Raúl A. Lacayo Solórzano who had been criticized for his credit policies . |
| 3 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 4 | Three are preserved , including 660 in Blackpool which has been restored for the Centenary . |
| 5 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 6 | To achieve such a blend of the absurd and the tragic , the writing as well as the acting have to be of exceptional quality — and Courtenay has drawn his inspiration from a remarkable novel by Venedikt Yerofeev which has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Mulrine . |
| 7 | And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points . |
| 8 | The shooting ended a promising future for Nicola who had been recommended for an audition with the Royal Ballet . |