Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Arriving during the early stages of the battle , he noted in despair , ‘ there is work here for a month ’ .
2 The thing that 's really helped enormously recently has been the Phoenix Centre and the development of the Phoenix Centre , and there 's room there for a lot of volunteers to work in various capacities .
3 ‘ The nurse said I was very good company , which I thought was praise indeed for a guy who had just had a coronary thrombosis .
4 In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her .
5 There was space enough for an office for the two solicitors , a room for the visiting advocates from Edinburgh to work in , and a meeting room for talking to parents , specialist advisers , and witnesses .
6 Clearly there was material here for a book which would radically revise the way the Princess of Wales was seen by the public .
7 Now luck would have it that my drawing was spot on for a guy who drank in The Roebuck .
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