Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] be the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | listen this is the end for the er political system , you see the half of it is collapsed already the , the north king so you see what 's happening in the , in the , er south king |
| 2 | In this book it is our aim to give such an account of the meaning of the various surface constructions where adjectives are found in English , doing so by relating these to such intensional notions as entity , identification , qualification and assignment ( which can themselves be plausibly related to more general aspects of mental activity ) ; and indeed we believe this is the task for syntax in general . |
| 3 | I think that 's the attraction for us . |
| 4 | I think that 's the attraction for us . |
| 5 | I leave you with that thought because I think that 's the job for all of us old pilots . |
| 6 | And I think that was the situation for a lot of people , that erm if they did n't take the the flat that was offered to them , then they would be virtually erm either still on a long waiting list or homeless . |
| 7 | Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community . |
| 8 | All that we have available is the notes for the first part of the introduction , written , presumably , in the spring , and consisting of a highly condensed discussion of Greek tragedy and its development . |