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

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1 And we all realize that our responsibility to be the catalyst for peace in the region does not end with the successful conclusion of this war .
2 His self portrait with his dog is often thought to be the inspiration for John Bull and his bulldog .
3 It is rumoured to be the inspiration for Virginia Woolfe 's novel , The Lighthouse , since she spent her childhood nearby .
4 The child 's needs , not his deeds , he maintained , should be the test for intervention .
5 The sooner this is recognised , and all forms of nationalism and populism rejected , the more successful will be the struggle for socialism .
6 Be aware that bankside vegetation is being used for nesting by moorhens , swans and coots and that sandy banks will be the home for sand martins arriving back from Africa .
7 At least , this would seem to be the case for companies that have many product lines and are no further ahead than the ‘ islands of automation ’ stage .
8 This need not be the case for water boiling under the low pressures experienced at high altitudes .
9 ‘ TOMORROW the world ’ may be the case for Sheikh Mohammed this weekend when his horses seek global domination in big races in the United States , France and Italy , writes John Karter .
10 This appears to be the case for equation ( 2.2 ) which has the property that a rise of 10 points in JXC ( i.e. 0.1 ) will raise the stock of inward investment by some 2.4% on impact , and by some 8.2% in the long-run .
11 That would certainly be the case for vectors drawn on the page , which I used as my opening illustration .
12 Government policies linked to higher educational standards and better reading attainments should be the base for representation on higher levels of book funding in schools .
13 Thatcher is quite right not to want to be the Minister for Science as well as Prime Minister .
14 TAKING as her text one of Paul Cezanne 's lesser-known dictums that ‘ the same subject , from a different angle , can be the subject for study of the most powerful interest ’ , Eleanor Bowen stretches the art of drawing to its limit .
15 After the expenditure of a large sum — about £150 million or so — on improving the environment and creating an impounded lake behind the barrage , one of the attractions is supposed to be the facility for water sports .
16 I worry that Strach might one day be the candidate for Scotland mgr .
17 Generally , it is likely that the greater the uncertainty , the greater will be the preference for liquidity , and the greater the risk of tying money up in risky assets .
18 And Paul Berowne may still technically be the Member for Hertfordshire North East .
19 In her notes to designers , with accompanying photographs , she would tell them , ‘ We definitely need a version of this , ’ or ‘ This will be the trend for autumn , ’ or ‘ These are the sort I am after . ’
20 I mention this cos it could be THE way for list members to get their tickets from the LUFC ticket office , and avoid all that hopeless phoning .
21 A recent decision by the Council 's Personnel Committee has established that non-smoking will be the norm for employees at work and the ban will mean :
22 But if God had meant such shrines and grottoes to be the proof for faith in Him , surely He would have taken away our brains .
23 One of the key features of RMI must be the capacity for clinicians , nurses or the clinical directorate to identify prospective care plans .
24 On a buy-in of shares there will not be the opportunity for Target to defer the payment of consideration to departing shareholders in a tax-efficient manner , whereas on an acquisition of Target by Newco there can be a share-for-debenture exchange as described in 5.2.4 above .
25 JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft .
26 Supervision of the quantity and quality of television viewing would seem to be the watchword for parents , especially those with young children .
27 An agreement was later made with the administrations of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland that Lusaka was to be the centre for broadcasting to Africans in the three territories .
28 Then another friend , David Vercoe , who happens to be the controller for Radio 2 , suggested it for the Jamieson show .
29 It seems to be the convention for c.c.d. delay line chips to have separate clock generators , and in this case IC7 provides both the two phase clock signal and a bias voltage for IC3 .
30 ANOTHER casualty of the election could be the market for politicians ' memoirs .
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