Example sentences of "is [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sooner or later it seems everything becomes collectable ; old telephone boxes , ancient park benches , and now the hunt is on for lamp posts , from all over the world , as Richard Hudson-Evans reports . |
| 2 | The search is on for value for money , real or perceived , and food producers , processors and retailers at home and abroad are all after a share of your food pound . |
| 3 | As the heat is on for community care implementation and tempers among your workmates may be beginning to fray a little at the edges , welcome news has arrived courtesy of Bart 's Conferences . |
| 4 | And they believe that , if nothing else , Mr. Mates is in for shock . |
| 5 | Here the company offering the contract agrees to offer a replacement car or plane for the period of time in which the vehicle is down for maintenance , repairs etc . |
| 6 | If Miss Kyte — if that is not indeed her real name , then the matter is up for dispute at once . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I owe the show a lot obviously , but my contract is up for renewal in June this year and I will have to think about it seriously then . |
| 8 | The Charter is up for renewal in 1996 , and there are ministers to be lobbied and Conservative backbenchers to be wooed . |
| 9 | As the debate intensifies over the BBC 's Charter — virtually its right to broadcast — which is up for renewal in 1996 , a younger chairman is needed to take the corporation into the next century , critics say , but Mr Hussey was tightlipped as he flew in from Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Anyway , Theo 's fellowship is up for renewal any day now , and he ai n't going to get it . |
| 11 | er , grass cutting in Borough Council , and I see their contract is up for renewal next year , is about the most disgusting grass cutting you could ever wish to see . |
| 12 | You are bristling with anticipation as you know the present contract which Plastic Foods has with Clearprint , your closest competitor , is up for renewal . |
| 13 | Very appropriate remark , Michael , the charter is up for review at any event , very shortly , because it was on a six-month trial as it were . |
| 14 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 15 | It is up for sale because its owner , Lieutentant-Colonel Charles Galbraith , plans to retire . |
| 16 | ISL , the international marketing agency which has the International Olympic Committee among its clients , is up for sale . |
| 17 | The Hanson stake is up for sale . |
| 18 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 19 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 20 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 21 | Going for a mere $50m , the Empire State Building is up for sale . |
| 22 | Coral , another diversification error by Bass the brewer , is up for sale and William Hill is part of the troubled Brent Walker empire . |
| 23 | THE mansion where an oil tycoon battered his wife to death before killing himself is up for sale . |
| 24 | Now the whole block in Kensington Palace Gardens , London , is up for sale for just £57.5m . |
| 25 | A BULLET-proof yacht built for deposed East German dictator Erich Honecker is up for sale in Copenhagen , Denmark , at £1,250,000 . |
| 26 | The Hebridean Island of Eigg is up for sale . |
| 27 | I believe , in fact , that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers , but merely ladies who can not resist exploring someone else 's house . |
| 28 | The Irish state telephone monopoly Telecom Eireann has denied a report in the Irish Times that it is up for sale , but shares in Cable & Wireless Plc were up sevenpence at 721p yesterday morning on news it is in talks about possibly buying a 25% stake in the Irish phone company . |
| 29 | The rich archive of photographs , letters , documents and memorabilia assembled by New York dealer-supreme Leo Castelli is up for sale . |
| 30 | An eighteenth century mansion which has been a convent school , a Hari Krishna temple and a training ground for police tracker dogs is up for sale . |