Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adj] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 300 BA members are now also members of the scheme , and this is good news for them . ’ |
| 2 | This is a completely new way of funding the universities , and although we think at Birmingham that we can give good value for money and provide a good education at a fair price , this is new territory for us and there could be some surprises on the way . |
| 3 | However , lines of constant bearing plot as straight lines on a Mercator projection and this is one reason for its popularity ; the course of a ship , for instance , could be plotted as a series of straight lines on a map drawn on Mercator 's projection . |
| 4 | For a recommended retail price of £218.00 ( wrist-mounted models ) , this is excellent value for anyone 's money . |
| 5 | ‘ This is big surprise for me . |
| 6 | This is another opportunity for someone else , ’ remarked the player who is the only one to have taken part in all of Scotland 's matches this season . |
| 7 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 8 | If the Minister has not heard it before , this is another commitment for him — 4 million people would gain . |
| 9 | Nevertheless this was small beer for him . |
| 10 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 11 | For Franco , this was perfect timing for his end-of-year speech . |
| 12 | So this was another reason for his , his place in film history . |
| 13 | These have improved in recent years , both in the air and on the sea , and that is good news for everyone here . |
| 14 | That is bad news for our figures , and bad news for our health . |
| 15 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 16 | If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority . |
| 17 | That 's nomish nature for you . ’ |
| 18 | That 's good news for us , good news for the growers and good news for the bumble bee . |
| 19 | There , that 's good news for you , is n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | That 's one word for it . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's wonderful news for you and for them , Christian . |
| 22 | Flint is dead , but there are some of Flint 's men aboard , and that 's bad news for us . ’ |
| 23 | That 's enough pizza for my tea . |
| 24 | That 's enough excitement for them . |
| 25 | Oh , and the ward clerk 's away because her little boy has chickenpox , so that 's more work for us , unless they can send us a replacement . ’ |
| 26 | That 's another name for it int it apparently |
| 27 | So that 's another way for you to decide which bit of the problem you 're going to actually start on . |
| 28 | This meant we were playing with Paul in the third round and that was good news for me because Paul 's caddie is a good friend of mine , Kevin Woodward . |
| 29 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 30 | That was local status for you ! |