Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 2 | Indeed , in the materialistic twentieth century , a life which offers no hope of betterment must be a prescription for social disaster . |
| 3 | An Interim report ( Cmd. 6759 , March 1946 ) emphasized that a New Towns programme should be a matter for central Government : the location of a New Town should be a Government decision and that a new agency should be set up to plan and develop the town ( it was not to be a matter for local authorities ) . |
| 4 | An expert on South African affairs says the charges against Mrs Mandela could be a problem for Nelson Mandela and the A N C. |
| 5 | In most other environments , however , such acute ears would be a disadvantage for their owners would be deafened . |
| 6 | If size of following were proof of quality , then Glazunov would be a candidate for the title of greatest living artist : in Brezhnev 's time ( he was the premier 's favourite artist ) he ingratiated himself by playing on the sentimental Slavic strand in Soviet life with ‘ symphonic canvases [ which ] overflow with the dreams and feeling of the Russian people ’ . |
| 7 | Drunkenness due to one 's own fault is in itself no defence to a criminal charge ; and this is probably true also of drunkenness not due to one 's own fault — though no doubt the fact that it was not due to one 's own fault would be a ground for mitigation of punishment . |
| 8 | The President would be a candidate for re-election , as would Miguel Trouvoada , Prime Minister from independence in 1975 until 1979 [ see pp. 27265 ; 30028 ] , who had returned to the country on May 30 after spending 10 years in exile in France . |
| 9 | programme will be a matter for discussion and consultation with Diocesan R.E . |
| 10 | What we can not tell is whether the trends to increasing divorce and remarriage will be a force for increasing the solitary living or for extending the range of family contacts available to the divorced . |
| 11 | The study will be a blow for the government which earlier this year pledged to reduce the number of under-16 pregnancies by half . |
| 12 | The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats . |
| 13 | Even an aid as commonly encountered as a pair of spectacles can be a focus for teasing . |
| 14 | Schools can do much to foster good behaviour and attainments and … even in a disadvantaged area schools can be a force for good . |
| 15 | Their results and the data from the first stage will be used to test how far and in what way the experience of the NICs can be a model for their successors . |
| 16 | WHAT is good news for shoppers can be a disaster for shareholders . |
| 17 | " We are proposing that the President of the Republic be elected by secret vote , and that any citizen can be a candidate for the presidency within certain criteria , " said Chissano . |
| 18 | Also , BCG is far more explicit about the need to build certain ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ , and appears to advocate investment principally in the top right quadrant , in order to increase market share in those SBUs where investment can be a vehicle for doing that . |
| 19 | A boat can be a target for a sneak thief on the look-out for an easy opportunity . |
| 20 | Labelling can be a nightmare for the behavioural analyst because it can divert attention away from the real problems . |
| 21 | This suspicion is reinforced by another concession whereby Finnis allows that an unjust law may be a law for all that . |
| 22 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 23 | A constable may be a victim for the purposes of this offence , in certain circumstances , under this limb of the objective condition . |
| 24 | Robson said yesterday that he hoped Bull would be a foil for Lineker ; he also thought Lineker might be a foil for Bull . |
| 25 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Therefore , although one might think that hours of work would be a matter for internal national control , it will be dealt with by the Community if it can get the subsidiarity principle interpreted in that way . |
| 27 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 28 | Her likely high profile and that of Tipper Gore , wife of vice-president Al Gore will be a tonic for all women fighting for more recognition and a better deal . |
| 29 | In sum , the tangible effects of Maastricht will be a programme for a European money and the certainty of broader , stronger powers of European government — with good and ill effects , in our view , finely balanced . |
| 30 | Director Brian Waller said the letters would warn the authorities that the named individuals who worked in child care during the Beck years may be a cause for concern . |