Example sentences of "it be the [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Should it be the demand for money , and if so how should that be measured ?
2 It 's the foundation for client server and other products in the family .
3 Perhaps most importantly it 's the platform for Sun to add the Motif toolkit compliments of IXI Ltd .
4 Anna said quickly : " It 's the season for tourists .
5 It 's the search for gold that opens up virgin land with roads and airstrips , and then other settlers follow .
6 oh it 's the time for violets is n't it ?
7 It 's the place for decisions ; whether to have an early night , a session at the disco , or a gossip at a late bar .
8 But fatness in either sex has nothing to do with beefiness : at its worst , it 's the basis for heart problems , general ill health and a lot of emotional insecurity .
9 It is the requirement for consistency of performance which implies multiple assessments .
10 Lyricism is inexperience , and it is the desire for glory .
11 Thus it is the demand for time deposits , and hence broad money , that varies with speculative demand and hence interest rates .
12 I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows .
13 It is the time for Nature 's great conjuring trick , when green leaves become crimson , gold , russet and purple .
14 It is the basis for age discrimination through neglect .
15 Revisions to the individual components of the shortage are not made , but generally it is the estimate for exchequer transactions which is subject to the greatest uncertainty .
16 Throughout the EEC it is the rule for patients with sexually transmitted diseases to attend a private doctor for their diagnosis and treatment , and these private practitioners do not report the cases that they have seen .
17 Probably the worst side of it was the disincentive for children to try .
18 But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers .
19 Although she would dearly love to know if it was the norm for women to follow him home !
20 ‘ I would n't have thought it was the moment for semantics . ’
21 It was the rule for centuries that if animals ( or at least , ordinary tame animals ) strayed from adjacent land on to the highway neither the owner of the animals nor the occupier of the land was liable for any ensuing damage even though it could have been prevented by controlling the animal or by fencing .
22 In some , the need for land was important , if not paramount ; in others it was the search for markets .
23 It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation .
24 When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ .
25 Perhaps it was the need for stability to offset the ‘ Whads ’ sterility but , remarkably , Homstat remained with the club until 1968 .
26 It was the practice for mine trucks or waggons to be hauled by small pit horses , probably Galloways , from the hoppers out of the mine to the dressing floors .
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