Example sentences of "be [prep] [be] a [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective .
2 According to the hon. Member for Brightside , under Labour 's proposals there is to be a discount for single retired people , even if they are billionaires .
3 ( 8 ) ) , and unreasonable delay in completing the premises is to be a ground for refusing to renew such a grant ( subs .
4 Or , if the cracker is to be a gift for someone , write the person 's name on it using a metallic pen ( Fig 3 ) .
5 Mrs Hobbs had stayed behind in the hotel at Ouerzzazate because of the heat ; Richard and Flora because there was to be a celebration for the King of the Belgians and Flora wanted to see the women dancing .
6 For both of them , their work was to be a spokesman for God , taking His message to people who did n't really acknowledge Him in their lives .
7 It was here that he made his name , carrying out the first really ambitious operation of its kind in the country , which was to be a blueprint for his ‘ Great Design ’ for the Fens .
8 That 's what happened when Ferguson fought Ray Mercer in what was to be a tune-up for Mercer before a £1.6 million challenge to Bowe .
9 The dead dog under the restaurant deck was to be a talking-point for a couple of days , and then interest would shift elsewhere .
10 There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French .
11 The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune .
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