Example sentences of "be [pron] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 14 | Erin , how easy is it for the ordinary person to learn how to compute ? |
| 15 | Nor is it for the sensitive . |
| 16 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 19 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 20 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |