Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 2 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 3 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |
| 4 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 5 | There is a flat at the top of our house where our younger son and his wife had lived until Mark was a year old , so there was accommodation for them : they need n't be homeless even if they were penniless ! |
| 6 | Henry II , moreover , had performed homage while King and although it was homage for his continental possessions and not for his kingdom , this was a step to which none of his predecessors as Kings of England had ever steeled themselves . |
| 7 | Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction . |
| 8 | That it is time for us to take our rightful place . |
| 9 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 10 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |
| 11 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 12 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 13 | The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder . |
| 14 | For all his enjoyment of the work and the companionship of his team the lad was not sorry when the ground covered , about half an acre , showed that it was time for his midday snack . |
| 15 | There was once a king who decided that it was time for his son to marry . |
| 16 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 17 | She 's doing no harm here , and I 'm company for her . ’ |
| 18 | And there is room for them all to do better than each other . |
| 19 | The other consultants in the team are expected to integrate around that style and there is pressure for them to be seen to do so . |
| 20 | There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves . |
| 21 | He heaved again at the floor plate and there was room for his feet to slide down towards the blurred stones between the sleepers . |
| 22 | When the patient is having long-term treatment at home , it is often worthwhile for him to invest in his own treatment plinth , if he can afford it , and if there is space for it . |
| 23 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 24 | On the thorny question of support for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment on its kit ( UX Nos 375 , 379 ) , Sun will now say only that if there is demand for it from customers , then ‘ fine , why not ? |
| 25 | Welcome back : And it 's time for our third and last look backstage at the hit musical Barnum . |
| 26 | Kenny does the same , and he relates animal wants to Aristotle 's notion of epithumia , or sensual desire : ‘ It is felt desire , and it is desire for something now , desire which is more or less continuously felt until it is satisfied ( like hunger , sleepiness , thirst ) ’ ( 1975 : 49 ) . |
| 27 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 28 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 29 | Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side . |
| 30 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |