Example sentences of "for [noun] [pers pn] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main difference is in the language used to describe what is responsible for that residuum : for determinists it is the variability of constellations of causes in individual cases ; for indeterminists it is our ability to choose not to be predictable . |
| 2 | Convinced , like the even more outspoken Gustave Le Bon , that ‘ Out of a hundred Hindus educated in English schools , there are a hundred who are irreconcilable enemies of British power ’ and that the export of democratic institutions would simply be a form of national suicide , for Harmand it was the lesson of Santo Domingo that counted : the Caribbean negro slave revolt of 1795 which , ten years later , led to the surrender of a French army . |
| 3 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 4 | For years he was the dean of biology , and in 1985 he became founder-chairman of Vietnam 's Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Centre . |
| 5 | But for Israel it is the beginning . |
| 6 | For Dalglish it was the result he just could not afford , having spent more than £11 million to realise benefactor Jack Walker 's dream . |
| 7 | ’ ( John 12.24 ) The importance of death is that for God it is the commencement of resurrection . |
| 8 | Anthropology had a place in this scheme because for Marx it was the study of the early history of mankind . |
| 9 | For mums it was the era of the cheap washing machine that would free them from drudgery . |
| 10 | For Lukács it was the proletariat who were to achieve this praxis . |
| 11 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 12 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 13 | For some members of the Church of England it 'll be the fulfillment of years of campaigning , for others it 's the end of the road . |
| 14 | For others it was the assistance that was especially useful : |
| 15 | For others it was the handiwork of a god or gods . |
| 16 | For some , Satan is a person ; for others he is the force of evil ; for yet others he does not exist — except , perhaps , in people 's minds . |
| 17 | For Attlee it was the vindication of his policy . |
| 18 | For Margery they are the substance of her book — for Rolle they enter into some of his writing and illuminate his teaching . |
| 19 | For Briggs it was the purity of their aims . |
| 20 | a new rugby season starts tomorrow … and for Gloucester it 's the start of a new era … they 've lost half of their old side this summer … |