Example sentences of "[noun prp] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bourdieu is on the other hand very French , very Parisian , and as seductively avant-garde in sociology as Foucault , Lacan , Barthes , Lefebvre , Derrida , and Deleuze are for other academic disciplines . |
| 2 | Jeff Koons is for real . |
| 3 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 4 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 5 | The Ronseal Low-Odour Wood Preserver is for exterior wood , providing deep penetration , a special blend of waterproofing agents , and fade-resistant natural pigments . |
| 6 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 7 | Unlike the big tourist hotels , the Savoy was for favoured and important visitors . |
| 8 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 9 | The miracles express both the belief in a God who reaches out and ‘ touches ’ — a God who can heal — and also the fact that not only healing but the whole message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 10 | Christians believe that the good news of the message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 11 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 12 | One passion Sue does share with her ‘ twin ’ Audrey is for new clothes ! |
| 13 | Because Port Solent is for those who enjoy the ultimate maritime lifestyle . |
| 14 | This is the true gospel , the love and acceptance of God is for all people , irrespective of their background or history . |
| 15 | Work with pupils can often translate these metaphors or similes into something more meaningful , like that in Carl Burke 's book God is for Real ( 1967 : 34 ) where the 23rd Psalm is given a quite different translation by one boy : " The Lord is like my probation officer " : the probation officer was the only person in his life who had ever shown any real love and care for him . |
| 16 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 17 | The US State Department responded by reiterating its rejection of any conditions for the release of hostages , and by emphasizing that US forces deployed in Saudi Arabia were for defensive purposes . |
| 18 | BARBICAN is for those who demand high prestige plus top security . |
| 19 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |
| 20 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 21 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 22 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 23 | For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war . |
| 24 | Your early conditioning : the latest psychological fad in America is for pregnant women to talk to their babies while still in the womb . |
| 25 | MGM 's Dynamite directed by Cecil B. de Mille was for Daugherty nothing more than a torrid melodrama of conventional silliness but he knew that audiences would love the tremendous cave-in of the coal-mine . |
| 26 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 27 | Zanzibar was for many years an Omani-owned territory . |
| 28 | The horn 's principal use in Yemen is for ornamental dagger handles . |
| 29 | Fox is for all pregnant women and Mellanby for women over six months pregnant and mothers and babies . |
| 30 | Steve may explain the game at Saint Andrews was for low to ground players . |