Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 32 | But however that 's the way things went and er we were distributors for the Morris for Selkirkshire and Peebleshire . |
| 33 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 34 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 35 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 36 | In Britain this is reinforced by such practices as attending a number of dinners a term in the Inns of Court while they are students for the Bar ; in both Britain and the United States there is the shared experience of dealing with problems from a legal perspective and extensive contact with other lawyers . |
| 37 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 38 | They are singers for whom singing and rehearsal are constant duties that are not always ( to say the least ) touched by concerns of high art . |
| 39 | These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions . |
| 40 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 41 | They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum . |
| 42 | They are arguments for , if anything , de criminalisation . |
| 43 | The lives of others , I believe , are not mere management problems , their despairs are not simply amenable to technical solutions which ‘ repair the system as it is ’ ; they are cries for radical solutions , solutions which go to the root of the problem : the structures of society which gnaw away at their lives , their self-worth . |
| 44 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 45 | They are highways for dead souls moving into paradise and often carry emigrants deep into the heart of a new country . |
| 46 | And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource : water . |
| 47 | They are recipes for disaster when you are entertaining . |
| 48 | The different species of trees are not all making their livings in exactly the same way , but as far as the particular race we are talking about is concerned — the race for the sunlight above the canopy — they are competitors for the same resource . |
| 49 | Cor , oh they are mate for Saturday |
| 50 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 51 | They are frameworks for assessment , not formulas to be rigidly applied . |
| 52 | Thus they are struggles for modernization . |
| 53 | Everything is prepared very carefully ; food that wo n't spoil or collapse is made first and other dishes of a more fragile nature are left to the last moment so they are picture for the picture . |
| 54 | They are fighters for the freedom of our people ! |
| 55 | They are votes for a person . |
| 56 | At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb . |
| 57 | However , these concepts do not constitute a theory of word perception or production : they are names for structures and processes whose nature is to be explained by any theory of word perception or production . |
| 58 | Bingham says they 're ones for the future but how can we gauge their potential on a substitutes ' bench . |
| 59 | They 're company for each other are n't they ? |
| 60 | Yeah well they 're agents for Bradley , Bradford and Bingley |