Example sentences of "for [det] [noun sg] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 2 | The score for each trial was the number of correct letters of the trigram given in the right position . |
| 3 | The score for each player is the sum of the pay-offs in these encounters with neighbours . |
| 4 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |
| 5 | What has always been true of secondary schools is now becoming true of primary schools also , and one of the main vehicles for that change is the Education Reform Act . |
| 6 | The findings suggest that , although there is an interacting effect between the two , many of the fundamental characteristics which are shared by all the cross-national systems investigated for that industry are the result of a common response to modern technological development and mechanised factory production . |
| 7 | Nor for that matter was the rug . |
| 8 | Holloway prison 's C1 unit has for some time been the subject of public concern and outrage . |
| 9 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 10 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 11 | Another reason for some optimism is the increase in personal possessions with which people enter the third age . |
| 12 | Other names in common use for this register are the instruction counter , next instruction address register ( or NIAR ) , sequence register , and current order register . |
| 13 | The reason for this fall is the fact that romantic love can not be sustained without an underlying friendship . |
| 14 | The main reason for this tendency was the lack of true evidence . |
| 15 | The precedent for this approach is the work done on vision by the psychologist James Gibson , from the 1950s onwards . |
| 16 | However , the most valuable long-term effect of the plans for this index was the classification scheme which was devised in order to arrange it . |
| 17 | The appropriate unit for this purpose is the lexeme : a dictionary contains ( among other things ) an alphabetical list of the lexemes of a language . |
| 18 | BRITAIN 'S projected £20bn trade deficit for this year is the market 's ‘ definitive judgement ’ on a decade of Tory government , Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman told the conference yesterday , writes Judy Jones . |
| 19 | The target area for this blow is the face . |
| 20 | The crucial point for this country is the link between the present ERM bands and British interest rates . |
| 21 | While such victim and self-report surveys are not new what was new for this country was the scope of this survey . |
| 22 | A major factor accounting for this development is the absence of legal aid for representation before tribunals . |
| 23 | There is no military-industrial complex because to define the enhanced role of the military in this way is to assume that the reason for this development is the desire of the military and industry to work together . |
| 24 | The subject for this painting is the yacht marina at Vilamoura , in Portugal 's Algarve . |
| 25 | The motive for this system was the provision of income for the royal treasury from the fees charged on the transaction of money-changing ; it was not prompted by any financial crisis . |
| 26 | The seventy two million erm for this Committee is the labour that would involve roughly er nett savings of about one million er pounds because we and no doubt all the routes of course have to look at the social budget and where their priorities are and in order for us to er do other things perhaps indication in relation to and also will provide primary school er budgets . |
| 27 | We have chosen a name for this unit which does not presuppose numerical calculation ; other terms for this unit are the arithmetic unit , the arithmetic and logical unit ( ALU ) , and the mill ( a term introduced by Babbage , and used in some British computers ) . |
| 28 | Apparently the starting point for this design was the body of an 0–18 model Martin , but the slightly less angular shape and rounded Venetian cutaway have given the guitar a look all its own . |
| 29 | A further trial for this region was the destruction wrought by Hurricane Joan in October 1988 . |
| 30 | One of the consequences he claims for this theory is the disappearance of ideas ‘ to the precise extent that it has emerged that their existence is inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in the last instance by an ideological apparatus ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 159 ) . |