Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no offence for him to engage in other sexual acts with her , unless these are otherwise unlawful , although it is an offence for him to commit an act of buggery or gross indecency with a male patient who is mentally disordered . |
| 2 | Now , we got permission to go ahead with a , a ballot for industrial action , which took place and although it was a majority for industrial action , it was n't the required two thirds majority . |
| 3 | In a reply , Mr Lovelock gave a short historical background to the choice of the new cruiser 's name , pointing out that although it was a precedent for a Departmental vessel , Searcher is an appropriately traditional name in the Customs and Excise with all its connotations . |
| 4 | If you 're a sucker for tradition , you can always watch the changing of the guard before the leading runners come along . |
| 5 | If you 're an organizer for a charity or if you know someone who needs help in some way or indeed if you need help in some way , call us on Nottingham three four three four three four soon as possible and we 'll put you on charity shop that follows the four o'clock news here on afternoon special . |
| 6 | Patients with prostatic disease were removed from the survival figures to see if they were a confounder for age ; although overall survival was worse in the remainder , there was still no association with age ( table II ) . |
| 7 | I accepted all of this without thinking it in any way unusual , even though my father used to boast about Billy 's achievements as if they were a matter for civic pride . |
| 8 | If it is a machine for cooking , as design writers are fond of saying , it must be a well oiled one . |
| 9 | It permits a takeover offer to be made for a private company if it is an offer for all the shares in , or all the shares comprised in the equity or non-equity share capital of , that company ( other than shares held by the offeror ) and the conditions set out in the article are satisfied . |
| 10 | If it 's a house for university then they only rent it out . |
| 11 | A subsidiary company can only receive surrendered ACT in an accounting period if it was a subsidiary for the whole of that period ( s 240(l) ) . |
| 12 | And I thought well , even if it was a voucher for pads or owt , I mean , they 'll come in for either Lianne |
| 13 | In fact there was something almost monastic about it : as if it were a retreat for much needed solitude and quiet study . |
| 14 | The wood is laid on the altar , Isaac is bound and then ‘ put ’ ( the word in the Hebrew is as colourless as that : it is as if he is an object for slaughter , no longer a human being , let alone Abraham 's son ) on the wood . |
| 15 | No , it 's nice cos it 's a lot for presentation as well |
| 16 | Cos it 's a penny for each degree . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I like the fashion , and because I 'm an activist for what I believe in . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , we have to put these advertisements in , ’ said the tired , courteous , slightly frayed man who interviewed him , ‘ because we are a service for all schools in the private sector . |
| 19 | New Democrats dislike it because it is a substitute for painful spending cuts , old Democrats because it is inherently regressive . |
| 20 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
| 21 | The desks and chairs were very small , because it was a school for young children . |
| 22 | Defence agent Jack Gowans said : ‘ It was not the best day for my clients to chose because it was a dawdle for the police to catch up with them . ’ |
| 23 | His first books were written while he was a correspondent for Time magazine , which assigned him to cover the Far East . |
| 24 | The letter added that while it was a matter for the City Council to determine whether to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the event , ‘ there are no funds at the disposal of this Department to meet the costs involved ’ . |
| 25 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |
| 26 | You might be mad to wear one but , whether it 's a creation for Ascot or a woolly pull-on number , there 's a hat to top off any outfit |
| 27 | It was just that City enjoyed one of those rare days when everything went right , even though some of the Maine Road faithful will have mixed feelings about whether it was an occasion for celebration . |
| 28 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 29 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 30 | People ask for his autograph more today , than when he was a star for Spain . |