Example sentences of "for a [noun] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nova Scotia ’ is a laid-back , somewhat funky groove hidden inside an eggshell rhythm , defying all the traditions but laying down the ground-rules for a music destined to be the ‘ rock ’ of the future . |
| 2 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 3 | Hartlepool Council 's development control subcommittee has granted planning permission for a bird hide to be built on the site of the town 's nuclear power station . |
| 4 | The unit is going to Merisel ( UK ) Ltd for a price said to be just over £500,000 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the third party and his advisers seem to have acted as if such a direction had been given , for a document expressed to be a defence and counterclaim of the third party has been served . |
| 6 | He dies lying across his brother 's body , a complicated split screen effect in which Irons was first Elliot , sprawled half-sitting against the wall with a stand-in across his lap , and then Beverly lying in exactly the same position as the stand-in for a matte shot to be inserted in the first image . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure it 's a bad thing for a specialist to have to be able to explain his problems in terms which erm and intelligent and reasonably informed layman can understand , but erm I think perhaps in Britain we go too far erm in not integrating the two and putting them together and erm this is somewhere where the French in many cases have got the balance a bit better . |
| 8 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
| 9 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 10 | Thus , a microprogram may have a wait for a store read to be completed , or the result from a test function may not be available for the micro-instruction sequence until several micro-instruction cycles after the function was initiated . |
| 11 | Then , from nowhere , a kind of despair seemed to settle on him , and he felt lonely and used and cheated , and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim , black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers . |
| 12 | Standard Condition 2.2 now deals with the payment of deposits and provides for a 10% deposit to be taken . |
| 13 | IPSWICH yesterday signed two players from Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of £200,000 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Ipswich yesterday signed two players from the Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of Pounds 200,000 . |
| 15 | The centre-piece of the complex is an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Nicklaus — for a fee reputed to be IR£1 million . |
| 16 | Recently , the Syre Beat was sold for a sum believed to be well in excess of £3m , and there was no shortage of bidders ; including , it is said , the heir to Britain 's throne . |
| 17 | MANAGER Chris Turner is part of a three-man syndicate that has bought First Division Peterborough United for a sum believed to be more than £1 million . |
| 18 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 19 | For an object to appear to be φ to someone , in the epistemic sense of ‘ appear ’ , he must already have the concept φ . |