Example sentences of "they be a [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a vehicle for accountability . |
| 2 | What they actually do is they , they 're a funnel for information . |
| 3 | They were a centre for training Communists from all over the world who would go back as leaders into strategic posts in their own countries . |
| 4 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 5 | Patients with prostatic disease were removed from the survival figures to see if they were a confounder for age ; although overall survival was worse in the remainder , there was still no association with age ( table II ) . |