Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon is yours for further exploring , until a farewell dinner party during the evening . |
| 2 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 3 | As members of the RSPB the reserve was ours for free ; non-members were purchasing permits from ‘ reception ’ to gain admittance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 8 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 9 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 10 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The scheme is one for an imaginatively landscaped , artificial but natural-looking , additional channel to parallel the Thames . |
| 14 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 15 | If the language is one for which paradigmatic displays of verbs , noun classes , pronouns , or the like would be useful , these can be included in the appropriate lesson and/or an appendix . |
| 16 | ‘ Come and fish me , the carp are yours for the taking . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And of course the house is yours for the duration , my love . |