Example sentences of "[adv] [be] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that in practice managers , like everyone else , suffer from ‘ bounded rationality ’ , that is , inadequate information and computational skills , it is apparent that the conduct required for profit maximisation can only be a matter for judgment : there is no practically discoverable , uniquely correct , profit-maximising course of action . |
| 2 | A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction . |
| 3 | A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent . |
| 4 | Well , there could still be a case for investment in such an enterprise if it were shown that the lack of profitability was the result of higher costs than competitors stemming from locational disadvantages . |
| 5 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 6 | And yet the incidence and nature of violence must always be a cause for concern and the subject of discussion . |
| 7 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 8 | Postgraduate special subject courses — However deep a conversion course may go there will always be a need for summer schools and for taught masters courses which investigate a narrower subject to the full depth of current knowledge and seek to probe even deeper . |
| 9 | I still think , however , that there is , there will always be a future for music and we have any vitality we will produce music , so if music dies , we die . |
| 10 | This region of pRB may also be a target for phosphorylation by the CDC2 kinase ( 10 ) . |
| 11 | Formal consent standards attaching to a discharge may also be a criterion for action in a persistent pollution . |
| 12 | Retirement is a time of great change and should also be a time for development . |
| 13 | The Committee acknowledges that as a result of its proposal that only threats of immediate harm should suffice for rape , ‘ some prosecutions will be brought under section 2 in circumstances where there could now be a prosecution for rape . ’ |
| 14 | There may well be a tendency for zoning on the part of high-income groups in order to exclude the poor . |
| 15 | As it does , there may well be a place for prayer for healing of the emotions . |
| 16 | This must indeed be a scheme for salvation in the long term : salvation through utter enslavement … |
| 17 | In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 18 | This is inconvenient to the tidy-minded , but should not otherwise be a matter for regret . |
| 19 | The C-terminal cytosolic portion of the human histamine H 2 receptor exhibits several sites at which serines are flanked by basic residues and could therefore be a substrate for protein kinase C. It has also bee suggested that protein kinase C uncouples a receptor for glucagon-29 from Gs by phosphorylating the receptor . |