Example sentences of "[pron] be for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 2 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 3 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 4 | The trial of Mohammed Amadou Cissé , who was for many years the Minister of State in charge of Security and personal adviser to former President Mathieu Kérékou , began on July 31 . |
| 5 | It is true that there are some fringe benefits available to farm workers ( as there are for many occupational groups ) , but their value amounted to only an estimated £1 per week for free food and a net £2 per week for low-rent tied cottages ( Brown and Winyard 1975 ) . |
| 6 | Norway 's preoccupation is therefore not how to meet its own energy demand , nor will it be for many years , but how best to exploit its hydrocarbon wealth . |
| 7 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 8 | WP It will inevitably be confusing for those in Eastern Europe who mistake the rhetoric of Western ideology for the reality of economic life — just as it is for many in the West . |
| 9 | The world can be a violent , cruel , sad , friendless place : indeed it is for many people . |
| 10 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 11 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |
| 12 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 13 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 14 | A tower of strength , he was for many years the Master in charge of the business side of the Library , supervising its odyssey around the School ; he had helped with lacrosse , with the School 's annual invasions of German-speaking Europe , with the financial side of the School Play . |
| 15 | He was for many years a JP for Bombay , and took a keen interest in municipal affairs . |
| 16 | He was for many years Brother Buccaneer to the literary dining club , The Sette of Odd Volumes , where his quick repartee was much appreciated . |
| 17 | None of these appointments brought a regular salary and he supplemented his income by medical journalism ; he was for many years medical correspondent to The Times . |
| 18 | This is not the way to maintain it in what is for many accountants a difficult transitional period . |