Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 2 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 3 | Except that it 's more likely the man , because , you know , the child talked about him dying , but in a funny way , as if dying was another name for something else . |
| 4 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 5 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 6 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 7 | If only they 'd started when they were young like himself , there might have been some hope for them . |
| 8 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 9 | Since no reasons have been given by the decision-maker and no unfavourable inference can be drawn [ from ] this fact because there is obvious justification for his failure to do so , the presumption that he acted intra vires can only be displaced by evidence of facts which can not be reconciled with there having been reasonable cause for his belief that the documents might be required as evidence … |
| 10 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |
| 11 | When government stock issues had been taken up predominantly by the triad , there had been little need for anything much in the way of a " market " ; but the change in the structure of debt ownership led inevitably to the emergence of broking and jobbing practices which were to become institutionalised into the Stock Exchange . |
| 12 | She knew her sons and would bet her last pound that Geoffrey had been awake waiting for something like this . |
| 13 | The Stasi , Honecker 's secret police , have been good Sturmabteilungen for us . |
| 14 | It 's been hard work for us but we 're not giving in in here and that 's it . |
| 15 | And what I really need is another card for my purse ! |
| 16 | Overseas Bechtel Inc , a Bechtel subsidiary , will be selling a Kanji version of O2 Technology SA 's O2 object-oriented data base in Japan which the company believes is strategic ground for its product . |