Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not.fit for public Life , ’ he wrote from Bristol to his new friend John Thelwall , the radical lecturer ; ‘ yet the Light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my cottage window ’ . |
| 2 | I was secretary for seven year eh . |
| 3 | Twelve and thirteen and I was cook for four years there . |
| 4 | For example , during pregnancy and just after you are queen for ten or eleven months . |
| 5 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 6 | She was minister for social action in the Pol Pot era and is regarded as one of the main theoreticians of the party . |
| 7 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 8 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 9 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 10 | They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are highways for dead souls moving into paradise and often carry emigrants deep into the heart of a new country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 're company for each other are n't they ? |
| 15 | Sometimes they were illustrations for serious study or important social statements . |
| 16 | er they were agents for these papers for any news |
| 17 | Two years later they bought another one , this time a brown standard poodle so they were company for each other . |
| 18 | Like the French cathedrals , they were Bibles for those who could not read . |
| 19 | But he , that other bloke , he said they were briquettes for eight pound thirty did n't he ? |
| 20 | Oh it 's lunchtime for most people is n't it ? |
| 21 | It 's money for old rope . |
| 22 | so it 's N for intuitive . |
| 23 | The hospital has over-spent it 's budget for this financial year by £70,000 . |
| 24 | Charges are £95 for a call-out and the first 100 sheep ; after that it 's 40p for each extra animal . |
| 25 | It 's aerobics for fat people , |
| 26 | Back in the office and it 's time for constructive criticism . |
| 27 | Secondly , I 've decided it 's time for one of my all too infrequent trips to Elland Road . |
| 28 | BY crossing the Irish line six times at Twickenham , England in one fell swoop exceeded the total number of ties scored last year when winning the Grand Slam — and it 's time for this columnist to eat humble pie , after criticising England , along with the other Home Unions , for inferior standards of back play to Southern Hemisphere sides . |
| 29 | It 's time to say the Irish problem is not impossible , it can be settled between the two sovereign governments , it 's time for these people to stop saying , Ulster says no , that is no solution . |
| 30 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |