Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the civilization for which they are fighting , ’ he replied . |
| 2 | More recently , I graduated , won a place in Cosmopolitan 's New Journalists competition and joined a feature-writing agency in London , The Write Stuff : if anyone wants an interview , I 'm The Chap for you . |
| 3 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 4 | However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder . |
| 5 | But , if Aquinas is right , they do not act intentionally , intending a goal which is the reason for their actions . |
| 6 | Prominence , which is the basis for our sense of the particularity of a style , also provides the condition for recognition that a style is being used for a particular literary end : that it has a " value in the game " . |
| 7 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 8 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 9 | Hey , Mr Pat Buchanan , you 're the man for me ; |
| 10 | Hey , Mr Pat Buchanan , you 're the man for me ; |
| 11 | And you 're the man for me . |
| 12 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Had you decided she was the woman for me ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's the old woman who was the nurse for his mother . |
| 16 | If — hairbrush microphones in hand — they were not pretending to be Abba , it was Welsh star Bonnie Tyler who was the inspiration for their unenthusiastic warblings . |
| 17 | So there 's the proof for it . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's the brass for you . ’ |
| 19 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 20 | But there 's the potential for it to be interpreted quite radically and |
| 21 | And as soon as the parent opens up and or they 're moving , and or they 're moving into the area , there 's the advertising for them . |
| 22 | They are the basis for our strategy and the benchmark against which progress will be judged . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , there is still a sufficiently good chance that they are the father for them to undertake the major share of parental duties . |
| 24 | They are the justification for its binding force . |
| 25 | ‘ Well … yes … they 're the basis for our inspiration — everyday , closing our eyes and imagining all the people alive at the moment , wherever they are . |
| 26 | He was still the great lover , and the woman beside him was the reason for his constant philandering . |
| 27 | ‘ Oathbreaking , the theft of a horse , uttering false coinage — yes , I think it 's the Arena for you , Rincewind . ’ |
| 28 | The Gloucestershire Regiment — shortly to face being amalgamated as part of the Governments defence cuts — wants more young recruits and spending a day with them is one way potential soldiers find out if it 's the life for them . |
| 29 | It 's the stick for you , my lad , if you ever go down there again . |
| 30 | But I 'm unlikely to do the New York Marathon in any case , because I 'm very much a rhythm runner , and I do n't think it 's the course for me . |