Example sentences of "is [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Class runs for an hour and it is playtime for the 24 children . |
| 2 | There is support for the driving lobby from cyclists and horse-riders . |
| 3 | This is availble for the full duration of the contract period . |
| 4 | A regular exhibitor at the event he is president for the 22nd annual show and will also be showing his pedigree Wiltshire Horn Sheep as a preliminary run before they go on to next month 's Royal Show , at Stoneleigh . |
| 5 | The sorrow and guarded watchfulness in the darkness of the external events of the story is counterpart for the inner penitential awareness of the meditator , but at the heart of the darkness there is certainty of light in the Resurrection of the " thrydde day " . |
| 6 | The environmental panic is heaven for the high priests of advertising whose function it is to capitalize on fears and desires . |
| 7 | Thiamin is need for the proper function of the heart , nervous system and muscles . |
| 8 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 9 | Barley is exceedingly delicate in his treatment of the great Bung Karno , the man who once stated , to wild applause from an audience of Indonesian economists , that ‘ Inflation can be good — as long as it is inflation for the Indonesian revolution ’ . |
| 10 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 11 | And there is evidence for the prompt celebration of the Feasts of the Transfiguration and the Visitation , officially instituted in 1457 and 1475 respectively , in an unusual series of screen paintings in a small Devon church connected with the Chudleigh family . |
| 12 | Murray Johnstone ( 041-226 3131 ) is well-known for the low charges on its PEP plans . |
| 13 | Not a change of nature , I hope , and believe : still , a development as the World calls it , though I can not think it is development for the better . |
| 14 | Stephen is runner-up as Photographer of the Year , while his daughter Lucy from the Lancashire Evening Post is runner-up for the Young Journalist of the Year . |
| 15 | Since ‘ bourgeois liberalisation ’ is code for western , capitalist influences , and since ‘ peaceful evolution ’ is code for the capitalist subversion of communism , perhaps Mr Yang forgot to read his newspaper . |
| 16 | What is life for the 10,000 black rats living in Deshnok temple ? |
| 17 | Individuals then occupy particular feeding sites in the trees and there is competition for the best ones . |
| 18 | There is competition for the same promising children , and it is a difficult decision for any parent to make a choice against the governing body of the sport . |
| 19 | One source is competition for the same neural mechanisms of motor ( including verbal ) output . |
| 20 | There is music for the vernacular liturgy of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer , and a handful of pieces probably intended for use as the extra-liturgical anthem ; this was composed for the vocal chorus available at the Chapel Royal and the greater corporate churches , and virtually alone among Byrd 's output qualifies as public rather than domestic music . |
| 21 | The second is concern for the social condition of the country . |
| 22 | It is success for the second time for Mr Myers and his long-term business partner Karen Jones . |
| 23 | The village and coastline have an air of sadness because of the many ruined crofts facing the water , but there is hospitality for the many visitors . |
| 24 | The philosophy behind this hotel , according to manager Sture Rydman , is hospitality for the discerning and appreciative . |
| 25 | Against this background , it has been a difficult start to the year but some improvement is forecast for the second quarter when further price increases will recover the impact of higher raw material costs . |
| 26 | Profitability is forecast for the fourth quarter . |
| 27 | Any need to analyse the ways in which the multi-variant police world forms a coherent and self-sustaining whole is material for the social scientist and not the practitioners , for they already live the system as a matter of course . |
| 28 | Surely it is time for the present Home Secretary — who started all this in Cabinet , along with the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) — to apologise . |
| 29 | But enough of prologues and manifestos ; it is time for the first story . |
| 30 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |