Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 2 | If at the time the contract is made , the goods are ascertained ( i.e. identified and agreed upon ) , then the contract is one for the sale of specific goods . |
| 3 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 4 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 5 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 6 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 7 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 8 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 9 | The scheme is one for an imaginatively landscaped , artificial but natural-looking , additional channel to parallel the Thames . |
| 10 | ‘ Come and fish me , the carp are yours for the taking . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And of course the house is yours for the duration , my love . |