Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is music for the vernacular liturgy of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer , and a handful of pieces probably intended for use as the extra-liturgical anthem ; this was composed for the vocal chorus available at the Chapel Royal and the greater corporate churches , and virtually alone among Byrd 's output qualifies as public rather than domestic music . |
| 2 | And there is evidence for the prompt celebration of the Feasts of the Transfiguration and the Visitation , officially instituted in 1457 and 1475 respectively , in an unusual series of screen paintings in a small Devon church connected with the Chudleigh family . |
| 3 | There is support for the driving lobby from cyclists and horse-riders . |
| 4 | I 'm going to tell you a little bit this morning about South East Arts and it 's support for the visual arts in the South East here . |
| 5 | It 's not like a s tap or anything , it 's overflow for the domestic supply . |
| 6 | It 's time for the new catalogues and one of the most attractive around is Palm 's . |
| 7 | Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's time for the ultimate sacrifice … fetch that rope and bring the rest of the pepper . ’ |
| 9 | Now it 's time for the national side to take precedence . |
| 10 | It 's time for the synthetic actors to start learning their lines . |
| 11 | Barley is exceedingly delicate in his treatment of the great Bung Karno , the man who once stated , to wild applause from an audience of Indonesian economists , that ‘ Inflation can be good — as long as it is inflation for the Indonesian revolution ’ . |
| 12 | Surely it is time for the present Home Secretary — who started all this in Cabinet , along with the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) — to apologise . |
| 13 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |
| 14 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 15 | What 's colloquialism for the green party ? |