Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what it 's worth , here are my predictions for the major categories : Best Film : Bugsy , Director : Barry Levinson , Best Actor : Nick Nolte , Best actress : Jodie Foster , Best supporting actor : Jack Palance , Best Supporting actress : Juliette Lewis , Best original screenplay : Bugsy . |
| 2 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 3 | What are my/our priorities for the coming term/year ? |
| 4 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 5 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 6 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 7 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 8 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 9 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 10 | He was to be my minder for an initial trial which would give me three laps in one of the school 's Escort XRi 's under his instruction , three laps with him driving and five laps in a single-seat Formula First racing car . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 12 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 13 | Rugby Union now , and Mark Eagon , the Oxford University rugby captain has invited Errol Norwitz who gained blues in 1988 and 1989 , to be his vice-captain for the coming term which includes the University 's pre-season tour of the Far East which began last week . |
| 14 | The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years . |
| 15 | My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’ |
| 16 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 17 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 18 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 19 | In their evidence to the Social Services Committee on the Griffiths Report , Evans and Maxwell concluded that its most far-reaching and radical aspects were its proposals for the central management of the service , with its promise of a new relationship between the DHSS and local health authorities and the change from passive to active management ( Evans and Maxwell 1984 ) . |
| 20 | And how much , how much were your subs for the Labour Party , how much was your membership ? |
| 21 | Is my symbol for the integrated session of good quality and well presented ? |
| 22 | Scottish Grand National is my choice for a tricky looking Martell Grand National at Liverpool next Saturday . |
| 23 | Here 's my table for the basic cast-on sequence . |
| 24 | Another function of the Committee is its responsibility for the overall supervision of the so-called " collections " of pools of biotechnology materials , which are held at a number of research stations , and which make genetic material available to research workers in other institutions . |
| 25 | It does not comprehend that the case for the co-operative form is its respect for the individual man or woman , a respect that is intrinsic to the form because the mainstay of its structure is equality of esteem . |
| 26 | Informix says it recognises that implementing SNI 's dictionary is only an interim technical solution to what is a much wider problem — which is its need for a comprehensive , master dictionary that embraces a full range of its products . |
| 27 | What excites Lévi-Strauss about the possibilities of structuralist analysis is its potential for a formalized analysis of meaning . |
| 28 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 29 | Plainsong : that 's their codename for the whole operation . ’ |
| 30 | Once he 's gone he 's their explanation for the missing money and all they will ever be accused of is leniency in not prosecuting . ’ |