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

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31 There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment .
32 Erm what we get for the money , and erm where there are possibilities for us to consider reducing that overhead .
33 The upshot of deifying humanity is this : animals are ours , animals are our property , animals are resources for us , animals are our tasters , animals are our tools .
34 Do you think you say there are difficulties for everyone , are you aware of any way in which erm men make it difficult for you , as a women , in a career sense ?
35 At the moment there are difficulties for everybody .
36 There had been fears for her life but she had recovered .
37 There are situations for which we humans are responsible , either by neglect or corporate selfishness .
38 I gather you 're a leading light in the arts — these are mine for my sins . ’
39 There are ways for me to hide .
40 none of these are starters for their teams right now and some are not even on the bench ( Lydersen , Strandli ) .
41 For a word to have a meaning is for there to be rules for its use : rules in virtue of which the application of the word can count as correct in some cases and incorrect in others .
42 There 'll be money for you and the baby .
43 ‘ There may be reasons for his silence , perfectly good reasons if we only knew them .
44 When each main idea has been sufficiently tested and sufficient knowledge has been gained , the chief executive goes public and announces the decision secure in the knowledge that there will be support for it , because the decision merely ‘ crystallizes ’ the views already put to him , whether he subtly induced them or not .
45 Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways .
46 There would be times for our tops , and games of tip-cat , and with our packs of cigarette cards , games of Long Skate , and other variations of these to be played during break .
47 Downhill running will be torture for them , poor devils . ’
48 ‘ I 'm sorry about you and Garry ; it must be torture for you to lose him , but his wife and child must come first , ’ she said sympathetically .
49 There would be opportunities for him to rejoin the council at a later date , however .
50 John has always gone out of his way to try and persuade similar sufferers that there may be help for them in alternative therapies .
51 By the same token , the treaty arrangements that these countries may individually wish to make with other states must be matters for them .
52 " It 'll be work for somebody , anyway .
53 When he grew up there would always be work for him on the estate .
54 These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years .
55 you know , I mean , there must be compensation for something must n't there ?
56 ‘ Some of the fellows talk of coming back here in peacetime , but it will be England for us , Anne , once I 'm safely home . ’
57 That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place .
58 Now there are a lot of supporters , er are they going to be er , is there going to be room for everybody ?
59 ‘ Well , judging from the size of the village , there may well be room for us if we 're to be content with small animals only , but I 'm afraid we 'll never get any farm work .
60 Would there be room for his Roller ?
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