Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this Louis XIV spent relatively little money on his navy ; he had to defend his frontiers against the threat of invasion by land through Belgium , and naval supremacy was always for him a secondary consideration . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose studying the human animal is enough for you , ’ said Penelope . |
| 3 | Brother Rhun , Saint Winifred 's devoted cavalier , turned his beautiful head instantly to look towards her altar , his first jealous care being always for her service and worship . |
| 4 | That the BIS was a mixture of unconventional religion and radical politics was further underlined by the support of Garrison and his emissaries from the United States ; British India development as a way of undermining British dependence on American cotton was equally for them part of a package , which included association with ‘ moral force ’ Chartists and hostility to evangelical ‘ sectarianism ’ in antislavery in the form of the BFASS , a view they held despite Sturge 's middle-class political radicalism . |
| 5 | This much-maligned quotemeister is there for you , his people . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been told the forms are private and confidential , but by the time you finish filling them in , your whole life is there for someone to see . ’ |