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

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1 Or as Engels meditated , ‘ Irish history shows one what a misfortune it is for a nation to have subjugated another nation .
2 " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said .
3 Yes because on the remote control it 's for a video as well you see
4 During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it .
5 This time it was for a new church in Gainsborough to honour the Lincolnshire-born John Robinson , pastor to the ‘ Pilgrim Fathers ’ although he did not actually sail in the Mayflower .
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