Example sentences of "this [be] [adj] [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much Mr for your comment this is Wain reporting for news at six . |
| 2 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 3 | Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end — this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths . |
| 4 | County Coun Ray Flowers ( Lab ) said : ‘ This is great news for Skerne Park . ’ |
| 5 | This is good news for BR workers , but bad news for privatisation . |
| 6 | This is good news for retailers and good news for all those who supply goods to our shops . ’ |
| 7 | None of this is good news for MIPS , whose chief executive , Bob Miller , recently told Unigram that his job ‘ is to maintain a two-to-one [ better ] price performance advantage over Intel ’ ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 8 | This is good news for Silverlight , part of Courtaulds Performance Films , which employs 20 people at a plant in Burr Ridge , Illinois . |
| 9 | Three courses may cost almost £100 , but when the cooking is done by masters like Nico Ladenis or Pierre Koffmann this is real value for money and barely half the evening price . |
| 10 | This is new territory for Murphy , who says : ‘ Yes , it 's a strange competition , shot-about . |
| 11 | Maybe this is one reason for depression , then : that the book 's well-wrought arguments will not exercise those whose ideology it dissects . |
| 12 | Today this is grazing land for sheep , as most of the surrounding area has been since the founding of the abbey . |
| 13 | In fact radio is alive , kicking and expanding , and there are thousands of hours of radio going out , locally particularly , and every indication there are going to be more and more community radio stations in the future , and this is hungry time for material , so lots of opportunities in that particular way , at this stage . |
| 14 | Rover executive Paul Kirk said last night : ‘ This is excellent news for Cowley . |
| 15 | This is popular venue for visitors to the coast throughout the year . |
| 16 | This is ideal country for walking , bird watching , horse riding and fishing , and where red deer can also be seen by the patient watcher . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that this is wonderful news for Glasgow and for Scotland and a great tribute to the work force and management , some of whom were in the House this week to meet an all-party group ? |
| 18 | All this is bad news for students of mountain history and first ascensionists . |
| 19 | All of this is bad news for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | And engineers ' president Bill Jordan declared : ‘ This is bad news for Britain . |
| 21 | This is bad news for Littlewoods since turnover among agents tends to be high and recruiting new ones costs the same ( about 50 ) irrespective of the amount of business they bring . |
| 22 | This was good news for pacifists , but bad news for Hobson 's theory , and it opened the way to a more optimistic interpretation of the role of finance in international relations . |
| 23 | And doubtless his reaction would have been to enquire coolly whether this was another bid for sympathy . |
| 24 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 25 | In western Europe West Germany in the 1980S became the biggest producer of chips Much of this was captive production for Siemens , IBM and Japanese companies . |
| 26 | This was bad news for writers of space Westerns but good news for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time . |
| 27 | This was bad news for writers of space westerns , but very hopeful for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time : it was the first positive evidence that neutron stars existed . |
| 28 | This was bad news for Carter . |
| 29 | All this was bad news for Charles , despite his own hopeful move towards Attigny . |
| 30 | For a long time , this was sufficient justification for Friedmann 's assumption — as a rough approximation to the real universe . |