Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups of helenium , phlox and perennial gypsophila sown last year are now providing welcome colour and are my favourites for the house . |
| 2 | Those are my plans for the future , now it 's time for you to air your views . ’ |
| 3 | So , those are my options for compatibility within an aquarium of this size . |
| 4 | For what it 's worth , here are my predictions for the major categories : Best Film : Bugsy , Director : Barry Levinson , Best Actor : Nick Nolte , Best actress : Jodie Foster , Best supporting actor : Jack Palance , Best Supporting actress : Juliette Lewis , Best original screenplay : Bugsy . |
| 5 | Before I go any further , though , what are my credentials for giving this talk ? |
| 6 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 7 | here are my targets for the period , right ? |
| 8 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 9 | " The furniture well , it has been my hobby for many years . |
| 10 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 12 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 13 | Glancing at the ‘ who duz wot ’ bit has been my wont for many an aeon , I spotted an absence . |
| 14 | He had a lovely hand , and wrote about him that ‘ this man has been my coachman for a number of years and I have no hesitation in highly recommending him … ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 16 | What are my/our priorities for the coming term/year ? |
| 17 | It may be asked , how do these structural arrangements vary across countries ? and what are the determinants of the variations and what are their consequences for industrial relations systems ? |
| 18 | The people taking part in the ARC are enormously varied , as are their motives for doing so . |
| 19 | What matters here are their implications for doubt . |
| 20 | What are the connections between internal family adaptability and external market flexibility , and what are their implications for entrepreneurial and small firm policies in a peripheral local economy ? |
| 21 | It 's been their justification for apartheid . |
| 22 | Some of the Dutch civilian internees walked out of the camps which had been their prisons for three-and-a-half years , despite instructions to stay inside . |
| 23 | ‘ You , I understand , have been her guardian for two years ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 25 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 26 | She could n't think now that this had been her home for so long . |
| 27 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 28 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 29 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 30 | O'Shea , of Shepherd 's Bush , west London , who had been her boyfriend for several months , admitted to police he strangled her with electrical flex . |