Example sentences of "[verb] be a [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 2 | Producer Mike Leander , who is also Gary Glitter 's manager , tells me the video has been a blessing for his two Burmese cats . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been a pleasure for me also , ’ said Madame Gebrec . |
| 4 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 5 | ‘ 'The man who can putt is a match for anyone , ’ ' she replied triumphantly . |
| 6 | Those people will always find bad in what you do , but I 'm certainly not going to go out of my way to avoid being a subject for them to beat down on . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All I 've bought is a toothbrush for myself and a story book for Kirsty . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 9 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 10 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |
| 11 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 12 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 13 | Inspector White said : ‘ Providing the club [ Arsenal ] were happy , staging a second replay ay Highbury would not have been a problem for us . |
| 14 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 15 | The journey must have been a torment for them , though for me it was a merciful chaos of trudging along muddy roads , of running for shelter from German fighter planes , of waking in the cart caked with snow while my mother and grandmother strained at the shafts . |
| 16 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 17 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . |
| 18 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . ’ |
| 19 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . |
| 20 | The nature of the work and the environment in which you operate is a matter for your choice , but few careers offer the variety of opportunity provided by the solicitors ' profession . |
| 21 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
| 22 | WHAT the Taylor Report offered was a chance for everyone concerned in soccer — officials , players , spectators , politicians even — to sit down and create a blueprint for the game for the next 100 years . |
| 23 | But I got to write songs with Dave Anderson and Rab Handleigh for the first time and the reggae ‘ Interference song ’ which Terry Neason sang was a thrill for me as I 'd always wanted to write something for her absolutely amazing voice . |
| 24 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 25 | Since the early 1960s there had been a movement for what had been described as organization development ( OD ) . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock said that this week 's conference had been a landmark for his party . |
| 27 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 28 | Local authorities have a separate and specific jurisdiction conferred on them by the Act , and the course that they take is a matter for their judgment . |
| 29 | What the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said is a matter for him . |
| 30 | After he had reached home , two men in police uniforms had appeared at the door , waved a piece of paper which they said was a warrant for his arrest . |