Example sentences of "be in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're in London for Valentine 's and you want to make sure your hair is looking good and feeling fab for that hot date then go along to the Schumi salon in Belgravia . |
| 2 | WE 'RE IN IT FOR KICKS ! |
| 3 | It seems that if you 've done an arts degree , apart from social science , then really you 're in line for jobs that science students go for as well , whereas arts students ca n't go for science degree jobs so you 've got more scope to apply for . |
| 4 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 5 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 6 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 7 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 8 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |
| 9 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 10 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 11 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
| 12 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 13 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has been in Denmark for EC crisis talks following their recent referendum rejecting the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 14 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |
| 15 | The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months . |
| 16 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
| 17 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 18 | Macmillan 's exceptionally successful Mexican operation has been in place for years but now Mexico is everyone 's tip for the top — ‘ The most exciting country in the region , ’ says David Phillips of Linguaphone ; ‘ The biggest without doubt , ’ says David Stewart . |
| 19 | Theoretically , she can dissolve Parliament without advice , but the right has been in abeyance for years . |
| 20 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 21 | It is an old ship-building town , it once produced a massive proportion of British vessels , but it has been in decline for decades . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State said that British Coal 's market has been in decline for decades . |
| 23 | I 've been in prison for assault , robbery , shoplifting and burglary . |
| 24 | By the sixteenth week the male testes are in position for descent during the last two months of foetal existence and the vagina has fully formed in the female . |
| 25 | Similar provisions are contained in the Act to govern secondary action aimed at disruption of supply between any person and an associated employer of the employer party to the dispute where the goods or services are in substitution for goods or services which but for the dispute would have fallen to be supplied to or by the employer who is party to the dispute . |
| 26 | Particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 27 | particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 28 | Five internationals are in doubt for Dundee United 's visit on Saturday — Gary Steven , Stuart McCall , Dave McPherson , Richard Gough and Ally McCoist . |
| 29 | EAST Anglian building firms are in line for £50 million in contracts when the Army Air Corps moves its operations to RAF Wattisham . |
| 30 | Ollie Reel is expected to assume the free-taking role in the absence of the suspended John Toner , while both Colm Hanratty and Gerard Reid are in line for championship call-ups , as is Damian Horisk . |