Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 2 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 3 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 4 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 5 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 6 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 7 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 8 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 9 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 10 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 11 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 12 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 13 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 14 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 15 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |
| 16 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 17 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 19 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 20 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 21 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 22 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 23 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 24 | He was immediately ruled out of tomorrow 's home match with Nottingham Forest — and could be sidelined for three weeks . |
| 25 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 26 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 27 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 28 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 29 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 30 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |