Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 2 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 4 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 5 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And they say that 's plenty for a healthy business . |
| 16 | In Powys , on the other hand , there is one for every 590 people . |
| 17 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 21 | The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 24 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 25 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 26 | As Mr Smith admitted : ‘ It was anything for a quiet life , ’ and Jennie had her way . |