Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players of strings , woodwind , brass , percussion and harp are needed for all sections of the youth orchestra and the young people 's orchestra . |
| 2 | They have an average life of 5,000 hours and are , therefore , much more economical to use in places where high levels of light are needed for long hours at a time . |
| 3 | Shortly after the Jan. 28 demonstrations began at noon , leaders of the three parties behind the anti-NSF demonstration were summoned for urgent talks at the NSF headquarters . |
| 4 | They resented the fact that it perpetuated a situation whereby in many areas , notably in Wales , the only available school was Anglican , no alternative being provided for non-Anglican children . |
| 5 | There is generally no particular emphasis in the killing ages of sheep as both young and old are found , although at West Stow ( Suffolk ) the evidence was indicative of sheep being used mainly for a combination of meat production and dairying with a small amount of wool being produced for domestic purposes ( West 1985 , p. 93 ) . |
| 6 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 7 | But they should have used ethylene glycol and not water since the bumpouses were a very very new phenomenon and the little bumpouses melted and formed an impenetrable crust in that area which , from that time forth , served to remind the silly , pea-brained man species that new thinking is needed for new times . |
| 8 | And since only about 3% of water is drunk , while a great deal is used for cruder purposes , much of the industry 's investment will be flushed down the drain . |
| 9 | The President is elected for four years , but members of the House of Representatives have to face election every two years , while a senator is elected for six years . |
| 10 | This type of derivative is known as the divergence of ; the derivative is taken with respect to the same space–time component as appears in the tensor ( here α ) , and the sum over the expression on the left-hand side is made for all values of α . |
| 11 | And despite a large membership , the club is appealing for new bowlers to join . |
| 12 | The programme is designed for recent graduates and those in mid-career . |
| 13 | It was proposed that the president be elected for two years without the right to re-election . |
| 14 | A difficulty with conducting this type of research is controlling for outside factors , for example , international recession , or war , or a disastrous crop failure . |
| 15 | The mix is baked for 20 minutes in moulds and served with a vegetable cream sauce , lentils , and sautéed mushrooms . |
| 16 | As there is no confidence in the supply of milk , the dairy processing industry is looking for new ways of selling dairy products . |
| 17 | Knife killer is jailed for ten years |
| 18 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 19 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 20 | This experiment was repeated for different pellets from the same sample when fresh ( wet ) and when dry . |
| 21 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 22 | A continuous 6/0 silk suture was used for intestinal anastomoses . |
| 23 | One soldier was trapped for 20 minutes because the impact of the crash forced the lorry door on to his body . |
| 24 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 25 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 26 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 27 | Placental weight was recorded for 1320 men . |
| 28 | Basal gastric secretion was collected for 60 minutes , and bFGF was infused subcutaneously ( at a rate of 4ml/hour ) in various doses ranging from 1 to 100 µg/kg/hour with a peristaltic pump ; each dose was infused for 60 minutes in one day 's test . |
| 29 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 30 | ‘ This car was built for such conditions . ’ |