Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 2 | ‘ For the moment at least they are a solution looking for a problem . |
| 3 | In the case of a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r 11 does not apply the return day must , unless the court otherwise directs , be a day fixed for a pre-trial review ( Ord 3 , r 3(3) ) . |
| 4 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 5 | There 's going to be a lot to do for a holiday . ’ |
| 6 | I thought there might be a vacancy occurring for a programme editor and wrote , maybe a little presumptuously : " I think I could be the man for the job . " |
| 7 | If there is to be a time taken for a further hearing before me in relation to the question of interest and or a structured settlement , I regret that the parties will have to follow me , not purely from Chelmsford to London but thereafter to Maidstone . |
| 8 | That 's a weekend gone for a ball of chalk ! |
| 9 | There is a servant mistaken for a master , a wife mistaken for a mistress , a deliberately revolving invalid and a reluctantly revolving hotel proprietor . |
| 10 | The play has some inventive touches : there is a servant mistaken for a master , a wife mistaken for a mistress , a deliberately revolving invalid and a reluctantly revolving hotel proprietress . |
| 11 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) " Kitchen-sink drama " is a name used for a particular group of plays written in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s . |
| 13 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 14 | So I think there is a need to plan for a location where this new settlement is going to be successful , recognizing that failure to attract appropriate er private sector interest will mean poor quality design and social provision which will obviously detract from the new settlement as a place to live and also undermine its role in terms of the Greater York area . |
| 15 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 16 | This was a necessity to qualify for a later call to the Bar . |
| 17 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 18 | This was a chamber made for a purpose ; a purpose it was impatient to fulfil even four thousand years after it was built . |
| 19 | It was a solution looking for a problem . |
| 20 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
| 21 | This young man was a bull looking for a china shop . |