Example sentences of "be one for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 2 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 3 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 4 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 5 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 6 | It will undoubtedly be one for public debate , and rightly so . |
| 7 | The goal of one consultant general surgeon for 30000 population is modest when compared with international comparisons or even with Scotland , where there is currently one consultant for 31000 population , and Northern Ireland , where there is one for 28000 . |
| 8 | Here 's one for all you Star Trek fans , basically this is a windows version of the very popular EGA Startrek . |
| 9 | But , that 's the cheapest , so , no there 's one for twenty one ninety nine . |
| 10 | But the longer-term victory was one for central government and its determined custodians . |
| 11 | and , what happened was it was a hell of a stink in dock , because there was all different workers for different jobs , it was one for fitting car seats , you had one for fitting glass , you had one for doing engine , one for fitting the gear box , one fitting wheels on , so you had ten blokes just doing one job on a car |