Example sentences of "be an [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leasing has never , however , been an option for the private customer . |
| 2 | I 'm an inspector for the local education authority . ’ |
| 3 | Consequently global prevalence estimates for the institutionalized elderly will underestimate the prevalence for hospital care and be an overestimate for the residential sector . |
| 4 | Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts . |
| 5 | Oppenheimer 's ‘ defects of character ’ , the political indiscretions and Communist Front connections of his past , were seen to be an excuse for the real reason for his suspension : that the father of the A-bomb was ‘ lacking enthusiasm ’ and ‘ lukewarm ’ about the H-bomb . |
| 6 | There will also be an award for the best garden in town . |
| 7 | The child needs to be motivated and so receiving rewards for going to the lavatory when reminded or for staying dry can be an incentive for the younger child . |
| 8 | The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations . |
| 9 | Could not that be an example for the flying service , the Royal Air Force ? |
| 10 | Reward does not have to be financial — there is already considerable kudos attached to being an examiner for the major postgraduate colleges and faculties , and we should try to find ways of extending such attitudes to other teaching responsibilities . |
| 11 | A vast majority of Arab leaders and Arab people have made it clear that the invasion of Kuwait is an issue for the Arab nation to resolve , but to no avail . |
| 12 | This has to be anticipated although Socata have obviously learnt a lesson from their earlier ranges — now there is an indent for the first stage and second stage is full flap . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth , East ( Mr. Atkinson ) made an eloquent speech about compulsory competitive tendering ; and I was heartened by the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) also realised that we were talking not about compulsory contracting out but about compulsory competitive tendering , which means that there is an opportunity for the in-house team to make a bid . |
| 14 | The Festival series of four drama presentations , LOCATION BIRMINGHAM , is an opportunity for the general public to discuss with the producers , directors , writers and performers ( if available ) their series : the origins of the idea for the series , the production background , the writers ' viewpoint , audience reaction , future plans etc . |
| 15 | In Wells 's eyes and day , Saint-Jean was ‘ a lonely frontier town ’ in which , at night , the ‘ deserted streets abound in howling great dogs to whom the belated wayfarer is an occasion for the fiercest demonstrations ’ . |
| 16 | It is an apology for the steady decline in public services during the decade or more in which the Government have been in power . |
| 17 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 18 | A general offer is an offer for the entire issued equity share capital of a company . |
| 19 | The second constellation of arguments is not an argument for positive discrimination : instead , it is an argument for the equal treatment of women and men irrespective of their relationship to each other . |
| 20 | SHAMEN star Colin Angus has furiously slammed claims that his No. 1 hit is an advert for the dangerous drug ecstasy . |
| 21 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 22 | There was an invitation for the whole family . |
| 23 | Moreover , the problem was not confined to one city ( London ) , it was an issue for the whole country : Belfast , Clydeside , Merseyside and a range of industrial and port areas , and city centres as at Sheffield , Coventry , Plymouth , Hull , Bristol and certain cathedral cities . |
| 24 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 25 | Since the election had been fought on the issue of Protection , there was an argument for the two Free Trade parties-Labour and the Liberals-joining together in a coalition . |
| 26 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 27 | He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons for over forty-two years , treasurer for eleven , and president in 1887–9 . |
| 28 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 29 | Above the cornice was an attic for the appropriate dedicatory inscription , while a large sculptural group surmounted the whole arch , usually in the form of a triumphal car with four or six horses flanked at the corners by statues . |