Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun] for a " in BNC.

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1 In a moderately seasonal environment , in which several species produce lleshy fruits , there might be expected to be selection for a particular species to fruit out of step with the others , and thereby avoid competition with other species for dispersers .
2 Sometimes the fee he paid for joining was expressed to be payment for a consignment of the goods which the scheme was supposed to be marketing .
3 Simple constant voltage drives of the type described in Chapter 2 can also incorporate this waveform detection principle by arranging for the next phase in the excitation sequence to be turned.on for a succession of short trial times .
4 Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop .
5 Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop .
6 ‘ The convoy turned out to be reinforcements for a Panzer division .
7 He argued that since there was evidence of market failure ( Chapter 2 ) and public sector failure ( Chapter 3 ) it was logical to expect there to be room for a third kind of organisation that served purposes which public and market institutions failed to do .
8 There always seems to be room for a new maker of jeans .
9 The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place .
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