Example sentences of "they [am/are] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 2 | They are fixed for five years at open market value , based on a detailed profit and loss account taking into account the outgoings , turnover , style , size and location of the pub . |
| 3 | They are appointed for four years . |
| 4 | To Esau the reunion means they must now journey on together , but when he suggests it Jacob replies : ‘ My lord knows that the children are frail , and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me ; and if they are overdriven for one day , all the flocks will die . |
| 5 | They are issued for three months ( 91 days ) at a weekly tender ( an auction where bids are submitted in writing ) . |
| 6 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 7 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 8 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 9 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 10 | They 're disallowed for six months and then coming and |
| 11 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 12 | Just £9.50 , they 're guaranteed for five years . |