Example sentences of "they [be] [noun pl] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum . |
| 2 | The lives of others , I believe , are not mere management problems , their despairs are not simply amenable to technical solutions which ‘ repair the system as it is ’ ; they are cries for radical solutions , solutions which go to the root of the problem : the structures of society which gnaw away at their lives , their self-worth . |
| 3 | They are highways for dead souls moving into paradise and often carry emigrants deep into the heart of a new country . |
| 4 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 5 | Sometimes they were illustrations for serious study or important social statements . |
| 6 | er they were agents for these papers for any news |
| 7 | But he , that other bloke , he said they were briquettes for eight pound thirty did n't he ? |