Example sentences of "be [num] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial charges are 4 p.c. for the managed funds and there is no front end charge for the single funds . |
| 2 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 3 | Just as there ca n't be one law for the rich , one for the poor , there ca n't be one law for men , one for doctors . |
| 4 | The following year a London magistrate , struck by the notion that there should not be one law for the rich unavailable to the poor , permitted a man named Gleaves to bring proceedings against the authors and publishers of a book entitled " Johnny Go Home " , based on a Yorkshire television documentary which had exposed his insalubrious hospitality to feckless youths . |
| 5 | Let's hope that UEFA remember there must never be one rule for the big boys and another for the rest . |
| 6 | They played a leading part in the organization of the war after 1369 ; they both had considerable experience of Breton affairs , and their influence at court may be one reason for the important position occupied by Brittany in English strategy from 1372 to 1375 . |
| 7 | Many non-insulin-dependent ( Type 2 ) diabetics are overweight and this may be one reason for the high prevalence of hypertension observed in this group . |
| 8 | The attempt to remedy this deficiency and achieve a true professionalism may be one reason for the rapid growth of literary theory in the anglophone academy . |
| 9 | This may be one reason for the relative generosity of earlier community help . |
| 10 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 11 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 12 | Sitting here as a British judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 13 | Legal aid , in the words of The Laws of Scotland : the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia , is society 's response to the criticism that there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor . |
| 14 | It is one thing for the British elector to be told by Brussels where British fishermen can fish , or what sort of sausage he can eat . |
| 15 | But there is one consolation for the 37-year-old peer after assessment on the induction wing he is likely to be spared the indignity of slopping out . |
| 16 | And it was eight pound for the whole pack and all the spacers . |
| 17 | The risk of diluting the nature of the surveyor 's duty to his client was one reason for the restrictive rules about investment holdings . |
| 18 | No doubt that was one reason for the deep-rooted Labour hostility to devolution , and there were other reasons . |
| 19 | Non-conformist outrage at the Education Act was one reason for the Conservative defeat in the election of December 1905 . |
| 20 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |