Example sentences of "for [be] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Marshall , 27 , of Norham Road , North Shields , denied the charge that he ran down James Longstaffe , 45 , after hearing him taunted for being a sex offender . |
| 2 | I forgave you for being a man ages ago but , generally speaking , the male sex is … ’ |
| 3 | Should I rave on at him for being a litter lout ? |
| 4 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 5 | One is to settle for being a minority government , and hope to collect enough support each time a parliamentary vote comes up to win the day and stay in office . |
| 6 | I mean , if the cheque bounced three times before your wah-wah pedal went wrong , can you really blame the dealer for being a trifle tardy with the repair … ? |
| 7 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 8 | Bull 's micro business , namely Zenith Data Systems , came under heavy fire from French journalists at the conference for being a loss leader in a market where making money has become more and more difficult . |
| 9 | So I said oh , er , is there , there 's no discount for being a Halifax customer ? |
| 10 | If such cells develop as they do because they contain only some of the genes — for example , just the genes for being a gut cell — then a nucleus from such a cell could not substitute for an egg nucleus . |
| 11 | What we 're looking for is a quality system and a set of procedures which are flexible enough to enable you to handle the slick jobs , which you have n't got a lot of fee income for . |
| 12 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 13 | ‘ We believe that a bypass is what 's needed and all we are asking for is a feasibility study to be carried out , ’ Mr Melia said . |