Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice sounded odd to him , as if someone were speaking for him . |
| 2 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 3 | But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . |
| 4 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 5 | No it was just it was just that he , he , he wound you , he wound up , he said oh someone 's looking for you cos he wanted to get rid of him |
| 6 | Zelda West-Meads of Relate adds , ‘ Here someone is looking for their ideal , but she does n't exist . |
| 7 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 8 | Her story reminds me of that old Christian Aid appeal for collectors , showing an elderly lady at a lace-curtained window , with the caption ‘ Someone is waiting for you ’ . |
| 9 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 10 | He told me he had heard I was being watched , and that someone was looking for Magwitch . |
| 11 | As I turned away someone was shouting for the M.O . |
| 12 | Well , someone was calling for help , and she , Deborah Dawson , might be the only person to hear that call ; so she had to answer it . |
| 13 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |
| 14 | Someone was waiting for him . |
| 15 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 16 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 17 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 18 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 19 | But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker . |
| 20 | So if if nobody was looking for it or if they were n't used to the machines , examining the machines , they would n't know it was there . |
| 21 | But nobody was prepared for it , to take it and that 's how it was . |
| 22 | The likelihood is that OSF will issue a Request For Technology in the area some time next year — none are planned for 1992 — and the stuff is n't expected to be complete until 1995 . |
| 23 | After more than 16 hours of auctioning , every one of the 1,000 lots had found buyers , with none being sold for less than low estimate and many soaring to 10 times estimate . |
| 24 | None were referred for rib resection , an option often described in surgical publications . |
| 25 | Parallel projects to this one are planned for several other European countries . |
| 26 | So why should one be punished for it ? |
| 27 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 28 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 29 | It could be argued that the proposed phonemes and ( if one were arguing for the one-phoneme analysis ) have distributions similar to other consonants , while other combinations of plosive plus fricative do not . |
| 30 | Bell 's essay divides into six chapters , four of which cover his figurative or narrative work , one being reserved for his portraiture , including his nude studies of Patricia , and the final chapter dealing with his landscapes and still-life canvases , the first proper study of this popular business which , surprisingly , accounted for more than one half of his entire production . |