Example sentences of "[be] an [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir William Ross , you 're an MP for East Londonderry . |
| 2 | If you 're an organizer for a charity or if you know someone who needs help in some way or indeed if you need help in some way , call us on Nottingham three four three four three four soon as possible and we 'll put you on charity shop that follows the four o'clock news here on afternoon special . |
| 3 | ‘ Good tenants are an asset for the brewery , ’ he said . |
| 4 | G. The coasts are an attraction for tourists , particularly as access becomes easier by car and motorcoach . |
| 5 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 6 | B. The managers consider that the ports are an advantage for transport . |
| 7 | Silly noises like raspberries are an excuse for a good giggle — see how many you can come up with , and let him copy you . |
| 8 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 9 | Remember that when you are out with your metal detector you are an ambassador for our hobby . |
| 10 | They have some power over the length of the school day , they are an avenue for parental complaint and they have wider powers than in the past over matters of school discipline and in the appointment and dismissal of teachers . |
| 11 | Unpredictable and volatile exchange rates are an incentive for resources to be shifted towards the non-traded goods sector which is not exposed to international competition and is largely unaffected by sizeable and unanticipated exchange rate changes . |
| 12 | The whole episode had been an education for all , with one revealing truth emerging among many . |
| 13 | Got back safe an safe and sound tt , was able to tell them all school about too , which really must have been an education for those since nobody had left the town , very far , anyway . |
| 14 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 15 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 16 | Matisse has always been an artist for discerning buyers and was never speculated in like Picasso and Renoir |
| 17 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 18 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 19 | It should have been an occasion for rejoicing . |
| 20 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 21 | Thirdly , special educational needs has been an issue for this committee in the past and will no doubt continue to be an issue in the future . |
| 22 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 23 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 24 | In this theory , wants and needs are " pre-potent " , that is potential higher level needs emerge and influence purchase behaviour only after there has been an opportunity for the satisfaction of lower level needs . |
| 25 | In consequence there has not been an opportunity for profitable market entry by efficient private companies . |
| 26 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 27 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 28 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |
| 29 | Even the Government have recognised the need for reform , although the review which they commissioned in 1990 , which has yet to report , appears to have been an excuse for inaction . |
| 30 | His resignation followed persistent allegations that he had been an informer for the " Stasi " ( the East German state security police ) during 1981-88 . |