Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She can tap that source , channel the current , and direct it outwardly , but she herself is not that source ; she is a container for it . |
| 2 | I forget what mania this is , there 's a word for it is n't there ? |
| 3 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 4 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 5 | Well possibly I ought to put it on my review panel and er if there 's a requirement for it . |
| 6 | But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school . |
| 7 | There 's a reason for it . |
| 8 | There is a tendency for it to run in families . ’ |
| 9 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 10 | ‘ But we do think there is a place for it round here . |
| 11 | In my opinion religion will always be here and I feel that there is a place for it in tomorrows society as it is all around us and in everything we do . |
| 12 | Without over dramatising the fact that firearm , coupled with myself could easily kill somebody so we have to make sure that every single time we draw the weapon er there is a need , there is a justification for it er and as soon as that need and justification stops , so would we put the weapon away . |
| 13 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 14 | So long as there is one copy somewhere modern techniques of microphotography can make the text widely and rapidly available if there is a demand for it . |
| 15 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 16 | However there are videodisc recorders around and presumably this technology will develop if there is a demand for it . |
| 17 | My manner can be a little brusque , I grant you , but there is a reason for it — a sound professional reason . |
| 18 | Both the particular rule it lays down and , more important , the general principle it enshrines should be accepted as part of the English law also , though it may be debatable whether there is a need for it to be put into statutory form . |
| 19 | If there is a need for it , there are two ways of approaching this type of production . |
| 20 | if there was a call for it round here . |
| 21 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
| 22 | Cardinal Bernard Alfrink , for example , launched the theme of the local Church , talked of ‘ unity in diversity ’ and invented collegiality before there was a word for it . |
| 23 | oh I would of thought there was a rest for it surely , no ? |
| 24 | There was a space for it on the shelf on her father 's study amongst the others there . |
| 25 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 26 | The fact that 60 per cent of organic food had to be imported , he claimed , proved that there was a market for it in the UK. * The Prince of Wales has been accused of creating consumer confusion by lending his name and crest to the sale of " traditionally reared " lamb sold through the Tesco supermarket chain . |
| 27 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 28 | She told me that she was relieved to know that there was a reason for it , even if the root cause had occurred so long ago . |
| 29 | Erm not unless there was a reason for it . |
| 30 | Er they night go back to it then if they really wanted to , or usually there was a reason for it . |