Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps it is a job for the flying squad . |
2 | So it is a problem for readers to know where to put them . |
3 | So it 's a training for life , not just a training for being a chemist ? |
4 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
5 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
6 | This house belonged to a shipyard owner , but the Navy took it from him for the duration and now it 's a hostel for Wrens . |
7 | Now it 's a model for how to clean up the wastes from bygone days , ’ said the article . |
8 | Reading has historically been viewed as being synonymous with the term remedial and still today it is a priority for attention by members of SENSS teams . |
9 | Today it is a haven for wildlife . |
10 | I suppose underneath it was a cry for help . |
11 | Rather it is a plea for the individualisation of learning opportunities for all children . |
12 | Maybe it 's a search for the feelgood factor in the midst of recession , or maybe it 's got something to do with modern architecture , but the market for Christmas trees is sort of growing . |
13 | Bill Mumford says that everybody goes on these trips comes back changed in some way … its a maturiing thing … and maybe it 's a lesson for all of us we should feel inspired by disabled people trying something remarkable |
14 | He said If this person who ever he is has decided to join the Tory party then it is a matter for him and a matter of small regret but not one which will cause us to lie awake worrying about . |
15 | If a cat performs some very strange action — finds its way home over a long distance , predicts an earthquake , or senses the return of its owners when they are some distance from the house — then it is a challenge for us to try and find out which particular sensory pathway was involved . |
16 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
17 | Myopia , or short-sightedness , is the 24-year-old Liverpudlian 's problem — if indeed it is a problem for someone with 15 professional wins , all but one inside the distance , and one draw . |
18 | Instead it was a day for typical Yorkshire grit to show itself at its best . |
19 | Smith 's monopoly has a bookstall there ; you can get cheap Kipling and Harmsworth to any extent and yet it is a theme for English idylls . |
20 | If nothing else it was a cue for a visit to the Tates . |