Example sentences of "[pron] be for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |
| 2 | Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move , this one is for an indefinite period . |
| 3 | One was for an initial payment of £2,053.27 . |
| 4 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 5 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |