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

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1	The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours .
2	So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only .
3	What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars .
4	The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson .
5	Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ?
6	So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six
7	When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came .
8	Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of
9	However , financial security is no longer the problem it was for most people ; welfare systems ensure survival .
10	It is evident that change has not been achieved as rapidly as desired , and to a large extent it is for this reason .

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