Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [pron] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Is it really self-evident that the manufacture of napalm to be used in war is something for the benefit of the public ? |
| 4 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 12 | ‘ And of course the house is yours for the duration , my love . |
| 13 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |