Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 2 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's not like a s tap or anything , it 's overflow for the domestic supply . |
| 5 | It 's time for the new catalogues and one of the most attractive around is Palm 's . |
| 6 | Now with summer well and truly upon us , it 's time for the first in a new series looking at some of the region 's loveliest gardens . |
| 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 | IT 'S time for the second stage of the Roadshow Diet , our ten-week eating and exercise challenge to help you reduce calories and burn off excess fat . |
| 10 | Now it 's time for the second half of our review of the year . |
| 11 | Now it 's time for the national side to take precedence . |
| 12 | It 's time for the synthetic actors to start learning their lines . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It is success for the second time for Mr Myers and his long-term business partner Karen Jones . |
| 15 | The Class runs for an hour and it is playtime for the 24 children . |
| 16 | Not a change of nature , I hope , and believe : still , a development as the World calls it , though I can not think it is development for the better . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But enough of prologues and manifestos ; it is time for the first story . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Let us hope they 're still dancing when it is time for the Fourth Round draw . |
| 21 | A regular exhibitor at the event he is president for the 22nd annual show and will also be showing his pedigree Wiltshire Horn Sheep as a preliminary run before they go on to next month 's Royal Show , at Stoneleigh . |
| 22 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 23 | When the right job did turn up , it was relief for the frustrated star , but it also signalled the end of his marriage . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the Spanish translation of Rousseau 's Social Contract could appeal to a ‘ son of Padilla ’ ; it was enthusiasm for the parliamentary institutions of medieval Spain which allowed the Cortes of Cadiz to present a constitution , founded on the constitutions of Revolutionary France , as the culmination of the ‘ true ’ constitutional development of Spain . |
| 25 | It was time for the deadly follow-up — the Offensive Offensive in which John Major would savage his opponents , even if they were sitting on the benches behind him . |
| 26 | It was time for the Other Woman to go back to America . |
| 27 | Now the two rival versions had been completed , it was time for the multiple power centres of News on Sunday to deliver their verdicts . |
| 28 | And then , bang , crash , oh dear , it was time for the regional franchises to be renewed . |
| 29 | With the housecoat made up and endless hurdles overcome , it was time for the real test — replacing the clothes stand with a model . |
| 30 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |