Example sentences of "is a [noun sg] for they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'm missing something , but I do n't see how swapping a huge Tory majority for a small one is a triumph for them and a disaster for us — a relief for them and a disappointment for us , perhaps . |
| 2 | So that standing on the platforms of our great inland stations , we watch a salutary stir in the ebb and flow of restless men ; we see men under treatment by Motion , and know there is a chance for them . |
| 3 | As Wright Mills observed in his critique , ‘ The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists ’ : ‘ If the members of an academic profession are recruited from similar social contexts and if their backgrounds and careers are relatively similar , there is a tendency for them to be uniformly set for some common perspective ’ . |
| 4 | The commission will not be responsible for promoting a network : the extent to which companies form a network , particularly one that as at present subsidises the smaller contractors , is a matter for them . |
| 5 | Mrs , what the local authority excluding D thirty nine and D forty of course is a matter for them . |
| 6 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |
| 7 | The position taken by the accounting profession is that the function of the accounts is to provide verifiable information : what users of that information choose to do with it is a matter for them . |
| 8 | If an ‘ inner core ’ of countries wish to ‘ pool ’ their sovereignty , that is a matter for them : the British public will not feel that losing national control of their employment , health , environmental or immigration policies is counterbalanced by an ability to regulate those policies in Belgium or Germany — the reality of inclusion in a tight ‘ first division ’ in Europe . |
| 9 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 10 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |