Example sentences of "[be] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 2 | In Latvia voters were asked : " Are you for a democratic and independent Latvian republic ? " |
| 3 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 4 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 6 | A Jaguar of the same vintage is down to just £7,000 , and an H-registration Ford Scorpio 2.0i automatic which currently costs £18,000 could be yours for a mere £6,850. depreciation of more than £5,000 a year , or £100 per week . |
| 7 | Upon arrival at Aberdeen Airport your COMPLIMENTARY CAR will be awaiting you … and will be yours for the entire weekend to use as you please . |
| 8 | This bronze bust of Maxwell can be yours for an expected five hundred pounds . |
| 9 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 10 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 11 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 12 | He detected a note of excitement in his uncle 's voice and thought that it would be something for the old man to look forward to , seeing his work in print . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 14 | One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail . |
| 15 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 16 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 17 | The ‘ minimalist ’ manages to travel the world with everything packed into a small shoulder bag , and yet she always seems to have le vêtement juste — be it for a river-rafting trip , an ascent of an extinct volcano or an embassy garden party . |
| 18 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 19 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 20 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 21 | We will fly you both from Heathrow or Manchester to Aberdeen , where you will find a complimentary car waiting for you , and which is yours for the entire weekend . |
| 22 | And they say that 's plenty for a healthy business . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 26 | What continued role , if any , is there for a disabled workers ' quota ? |
| 27 | Is it for a nice , Brian-type P R interview , in which case you think , ‘ Oh good , that probably means about ten minutes ? |
| 28 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 29 | Erin , how easy is it for the ordinary person to learn how to compute ? |
| 30 | Nor is it for the sensitive . |