Example sentences of "[adv] [be] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 2 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 3 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 4 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 5 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 6 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 7 | It has not only been a victory for Mr Major : it has also put an end to the leadership crisis Mr Heseltine created in 1988 . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 9 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 10 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 11 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 12 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 13 | The increasingly related and intertwined fields of education and training have for long been a battlefield for learning technologies . |
| 14 | The tire has long been a focus for the telling of stories , and for the stimulation of inner vision . |
| 15 | Prostitution , drunkenness , vagrancy and other ‘ unrespectable ’ manifestations of urban popular culture had long been a headache for local borough councils . |
| 16 | ‘ Unionist ’ has long been a misnomer for both parties of that name in the Province , which are Protestant first and Unionist second . |
| 17 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 18 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 19 | The ‘ Victorian Age ’ has long been a synonym for a harsh and repressive sexual puritanism . |
| 20 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 21 | Terms of reference for due diligence will naturally be a matter for yourselves and the investigating accountants to consider and agree . |
| 22 | This would obviously be a nightmare for the directors concerned — and their families . |
| 23 | We are only beginning to work out these implications and our chapters of research can only be a base for others to examine in greater detail how our theories work . |
| 24 | The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better . |
| 25 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 26 | However , this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever . |
| 27 | Certainly it will not only be a gift for the elderly to receive a visit , but also we visitors will be able to benefit from the wisdom and life experience of the elderly members of the Church and society . |
| 28 | But this may only be a reality for those who are adaptable in what they are prepared to consider and where they are willing to go to do it . |
| 29 | Given that in practice managers , like everyone else , suffer from ‘ bounded rationality ’ , that is , inadequate information and computational skills , it is apparent that the conduct required for profit maximisation can only be a matter for judgment : there is no practically discoverable , uniquely correct , profit-maximising course of action . |
| 30 | The plaintiffs said that interpretation of the agreement could only be a matter for the court . |