Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [pron] for [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is it really self-evident that the manufacture of napalm to be used in war is something for the benefit of the public ? |
| 5 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 8 | well I said I would n't mind spending a week at aunty Mary 's me for a week |
| 9 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Moderator I tell you what the convenor would say six four O is it for the panel to bring forward a rite or is it for the er committee on worship to bring forward rites ? |
| 17 | The scheme is one for an imaginatively landscaped , artificial but natural-looking , additional channel to parallel the Thames . |
| 18 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 19 | ‘ Come and fish me , the carp are yours for the taking . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And of course the house is yours for the duration , my love . |
| 21 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |