Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 2 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 3 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 4 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 5 | The definition of dependent child is one for whom you are receiving child benefit . |
| 6 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 7 | Is it really self-evident that the manufacture of napalm to be used in war is something for the benefit of the public ? |
| 8 | What need is there for restrictions ? |
| 9 | Coal can be moved spoil is there for ever . |
| 10 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 11 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 12 | What raises Eliot above the entrapping circles of city and savage is what for him has continually to raise words towards the Word , something made available in partial revelations . |
| 13 | This asserts clearly that , before proceeding with development , government departments will consult the local planning authorities when the proposed development is one for which specific planning permission would , in normal circumstances , be required . |
| 14 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 15 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 16 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 17 | He was a competent scientist with a modest and helpful nature ; the curatorial role was one for which he was well suited . |
| 18 | But the longer-term victory was one for central government and its determined custodians . |
| 19 | But that he had a feminist analysis of society is something for which there is no evidence . |
| 20 | Their life was one for which she was very unfitted , and her gigantic effort to enjoy it struck him as a piece of self-deception . |
| 21 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
| 22 | The underpinning thing is it for |
| 23 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 24 | ‘ My plane is nothing for me but a flying machine gun , ’ he said , and he was a fantastic marksman . |
| 25 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 26 | If at the time the contract is made , the goods are ascertained ( i.e. identified and agreed upon ) , then the contract is one for the sale of specific goods . |
| 27 | What hope is there for asthma care in the future if the family health services authorities and health boards continue to rely on staff not trained in medicine or nursing to make ‘ quality of care ’ decisions ? |
| 28 | ‘ What hope is there for them this Lent ? |
| 29 | The afternoon is yours for further exploring , until a farewell dinner party during the evening . |
| 30 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |