Example sentences of "be for [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 2 | When Thompson asks about the emergence of classes he enquires into the choices and intentions of individuals , which are for him a crucial kind of evidence , and sees the process of class formation as one of self-making . |
| 3 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |
| 4 | His language , so familiar and so foreign , will always be for me an acquired speech . |
| 5 | With difficulty she repressed comments on the writer 's own linguistic proficiency , and how in her view it disabled him from judging Walter 's scholastic achievements ; with difficulty , too , she refrained from rebutting the idea that she was not getting any younger , for that was precisely what she felt she was getting , these days ; and she ended with best wishes for the future , mentally hoping it would not be for him a long one . |
| 6 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 7 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 8 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 9 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 10 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 11 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 12 | Homo sapiens has chosen to venture into what is for him an unnatural environment and he does so at his peril . |
| 13 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 14 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 15 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
| 16 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 17 | The Bible is for us the primary source of authority but not the only source . |
| 18 | Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet . |
| 19 | Yet there were also great difficulties in fitting these large numbers of people into what was for them a new and strange society . |
| 20 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |
| 21 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 22 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 23 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 24 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 25 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 26 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 27 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 28 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 29 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 30 | ‘ I have brought you here , Miss Kyte , ’ resumed Miss Merchiston in what was for her a pleasant tone , ‘ that you may tell Mr Quatt of what passed between yourself and my dear mother . ’ |