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

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31 We 've got a lot of educational stuff for children , erm we 're running a series of what are known as Pittstops , which is workshops for children at the Pitt Rivers Museum , all on a rainforest theme , erm rainforest collage , rainforest dance , rainforest masks and rainforest stories .
32 Which is shorthand for saying that you do n't have to cheat very much .
33 Prosar , which is shorthand for Professional Scan and Recognition , has a 10,000 page per day output .
34 Little pigs have big ears , ’ which is code for Jimbo is listening .
35 We were tentative — which is death for Orton .
36 EMSAs relative to the CHX experiments were performed with the following adjustments in order to obtain a better resolution of the various retarded bands : after the incubation with the probe , the samples were centrifuged for 5' at 4°C in microfuge and electrophoresed on a 30 cm. long 6% polyacrylamide gel in 0.25 TBE at 4°C which was prerun for 30' at 4°C .
37 On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school .
38 At 9.03 pm on June 21,1982 Diana produced the son and heir which was cause for national rejoicing .
39 The first Yachting World Cruising Club departure will be on 7 March 1991 to Penang and the Langkawi Islands , a charter organised by Marinair Yacht Charter Services who are agents for Pelangi Cruises in Malaysia .
40 However , the most recent of these studies has also shown that habitual drinkers who are heterozygotes for the normal and mutant ALDH2 genes develop alcoholic liver disease at lower levels of alcohol intake than alcoholics who are homozygotes for the normal gene .
41 However , the most recent of these studies has also shown that habitual drinkers who are heterozygotes for the normal and mutant ALDH2 genes develop alcoholic liver disease at lower levels of alcohol intake than alcoholics who are homozygotes for the normal gene .
42 Crystal ( 1984 ) makes a strong case for providing a detailed transcription of the language of all those who are candidates for assessment .
43 A serious limitation of the Wada technique is that the risks inherent in puncturing the carotid artery preclude its use without obvious medical justification and testing is therefore restricted to those patients who are candidates for brain surgery .
44 For example , during pregnancy and just after you are queen for ten or eleven months .
45 ‘ What will you be doing for her ? ’
46 In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries .
47 ‘ Talking of freedom , ’ James said , ‘ Kate and I were wondering what you were doing for Christmas . ’
48 And think of the climate — more people will want to spend their holidays with you than when you were MP for Ribble Valley . ’
49 Neil Owen , who 's councillor for Milton-under-Wychwood , Fifield and Bruern , became an Independent when the eighteen rebels resigned in protest over the Government 's level of Community Charge in west Oxfordshire .
50 Mr Heseltine who 's MP for Henley , walked out of Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet as Defence Secretary over the Westland helicopters affair in January nineteen eighty six .
51 When she has finished what she is doing for the moment , she walks on briskly , her head making little bird-like movements , so that she can see everything that she passes .
52 Mr McDaid , a medical doctor in Letterkenny , who is TD for Donegal North-East , said : ‘ He deserves the punishment he has been given .
53 Fr. indicates that for St Paul and for us this poses three questions : ( 1 ) Who is Jesus ? ( 2 ) Who is Jesus for me ? ( 3 ) Who am I ?
54 Their disproportionate impact on voters in the South was acknowledged by Mr Gould , who is MP for Dagenham .
55 Mr Bell , who is MP for Middlesbrough , is no newcomer to difficult briefs : he was front bench spokesman on Northern Ireland for three years .
56 But Walker , who is contender for Great Britain 's Olympic team , was clearly hoping for a much better time on what amounted to a solo run .
57 Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy .
58 Given the way things have gone lately , that in itself is cause for mild celebration .
59 From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history .
60 She was minister for social action in the Pol Pot era and is regarded as one of the main theoreticians of the party .
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