Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [be] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the fact that he , Mallachy , drank regularly in the Wellington Park was cause for comment . |
| 2 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 3 | That to Sergeant Joe was money for old rope . |
| 4 | That Superbrain with a quarter megabyte of memory has only a finite life and then any records and software dedicated to its operating system is material for the e-paleographers . |
| 5 | Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done . |
| 6 | The most common reason for children returning to the danger areas was homesickness for parents and relatives , or parents worrying endlessly about them . |
| 7 | Stephen is runner-up as Photographer of the Year , while his daughter Lucy from the Lancashire Evening Post is runner-up for the Young Journalist of the Year . |
| 8 | Mr Janner is MP for Leicester West , where Mr Egelstedt has been staying with Iain and Sue Baughan , who were toasting Mr Clarke . |
| 9 | Community care is support for people who need help to cope with life as independently as possible , either in their own homes or in other accommodation in the community . |
| 10 | For more than 30 years Mr Hewitt was coroner for South West Durham , retiring from that position when he became a judge in 1980 . |
| 11 | Perhaps some people 's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this . |
| 12 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 13 | The Minister droned on at length about all the things Britain was doing for animal welfare in Europe . |
| 14 | In fact 30–40% of all polytechnic courses are Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) validated , and in spite of the insistence by CNAA validating panels that library instruction should be written into CNAA degree courses , it is accepted more in spirit than in practice . |
| 15 | The plan is to do for the food industry what the Medical Research Council 's Cell tech offshoot is doing for genetic engineering in medicine . |
| 16 | Lizzy Burrows was game for anything and everything . |
| 17 | Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios ; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity . |
| 18 | The red army marches on its stomach , although the dream of Wembley and premier league football is food for thought . |
| 19 | Cup draw is hell for Hull |
| 20 | The original and present populations of all three species have never been assessed reliably , but because of their restricted distribution and the uncertainty of their numbers , the extent of their killing by crab fishermen is cause for grave concern . |
| 21 | There was another feature of the accumulated data at this time that would cause problems later , namely their mistaken belief that the 2500 keV peak was evidence for neutrons ; a true neutron capture peak should occur at 2224 keV . |
| 22 | Andrew Stanley is captain for the night |
| 23 | If the expectations hypothesis is valid , the expected return from the futures position is zero for both the long and the short ( see ( 8.17 ) ) . |
| 24 | Braun said that the ‘ order books are cause for cautious optimism . |
| 25 | The golf season was triumph for Robert McLaren ( Craigforth ) who in the final of the Pearce Cup beat Charles Brown , the conqueror of Willie Thomson ( Craigforth ) in the semi-final . |
| 26 | Stone retreat is kingdom for a Morse |
| 27 | They were either non-existent or perfunctory — ‘ none ’ , ‘ not been addressed recently ’ , ‘ school nurse is link for health ed ’ ( secondaries ) . |
| 28 | Principal ministers , with the rank of Minister of State : Fidelis Cabral de Almada ( Minister of State at the Presidency ) ; Carmen Perreira ( Social Affairs ) ; Col. Manuel dos Santos ( Economy and Finance ) ; Júlio Semedo is Minster for Foreign Affairs . |
| 29 | John Lawton was master for this voyage , fresh from another ship but prudently bringing his own cook with him : it fell to Robert Titford to be first mate . |
| 30 | Crawford 's first London stage play was Change for the Angel , at the small Arts Theatre Club , in Great Newport Street . |