Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 2 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Grandad had been a gardener for the local Big House . |
| 4 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 5 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 6 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 7 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 8 | And w and been a member for the whole time . |
| 9 | The visit of the Morris Men was arranged with the help of BNFL safety auditor David Pratt , of Risley , who has been a member for the past two years . |
| 10 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 11 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 12 | There has been a trend for the clinical diagnosis of pyloric stenosis to be preceded by an imaging study : during 1974–7 only 25 ( 12% ) infants were imaged before a mass was palpated compared with 57 ( 31% ) during 1988–91 . |
| 13 | The party had been a crutch for the weak . |
| 14 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 15 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 16 | And I think it should n't even have been a question for the Celtic connection to be there . |
| 17 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most striking case was that of William Patrick James Fair ( Bill Fair ) who had been a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Carmelite College in Cork . |
| 19 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 20 | In both 1988 and 1989 , combatting racial violence has been a priority for the Metropolitan Police . |
| 21 | It had been a march for the jobless , organized by the socialist opposition parties . |
| 22 | Furthermore , corporate capitalism is actually a generator of substantial inequalities in primary incomes , and it is arguable that such inequalities are a precondition for the effective functioning of the system , with the consequence that the scope for redistribution is in practice limited . |
| 23 | Although improved resources are a pre-requisite for the necessary level of services , a start can and should be made to adapt service delivery models within present levels . |
| 24 | Symbols , according to Gandhi , are a necessity for the religious life of some people but he insists that there is nothing inferior in conceiving of God in personalized terms . |
| 25 | Mutations are continually occurring in nature and are the basis for breeding — indeed they are a prerequisite for the evolutionary process of natural selection . |
| 26 | They say the centres are a lifeline for the disabled … the council say the charges would help them meet a two million pound shortfall in their budget . |
| 27 | Nautical William are a band for the Nineties steeped in three decades of pop star culture : Sly Stone meets Marc Bolan in an Adam And The Ants video . |
| 28 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |
| 29 | The outcome is that national states , which exist to prevent life being poor , nasty , short , brutal , and solitary , are a match for the unreasonable person who commits conventional crimes , but ‘ are no match for the resources and size of … great corporations : General Motors could buy Delaware … if DuPont were willing to sell it ’ ( Nader and Green 1973 : 79 ) . |
| 30 | Although they can prove good investments they are a minefield for the uninitiated . |