Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 2 | There has been no sentiment for it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Producer Mike Leander , who is also Gary Glitter 's manager , tells me the video has been a blessing for his two Burmese cats . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a pleasure for me also , ’ said Madame Gebrec . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Opposition Front Bench spokesmen are murmuring , I will say that it has a Labour council ; that has been the reason for my increasing majority . |
| 8 | ‘ 'The man who can putt is a match for anyone , ’ ' she replied triumphantly . |
| 9 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All I 've bought is a toothbrush for myself and a story book for Kirsty . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Just because he wants to leave is no reason for us to strike a bargain price , ’ Bassett said yesterday . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 15 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Inspector White said : ‘ Providing the club [ Arsenal ] were happy , staging a second replay ay Highbury would not have been a problem for us . |
| 19 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 22 | Two carriages took the Bradford family to early morning service , though it would have been no distance for them to walk . |
| 23 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 24 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 25 | This may have been the reason for his poor showing . ’ |
| 26 | I would have been the scapegoat for anything bad they wrote afterwards . |
| 27 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . |
| 28 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . ’ |
| 29 | Somebody may have some snippet they do n't appreciate is a lead for us . |
| 30 | 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 . |