Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four-course meals that last four hours are marathons for everyone concerned . |
| 2 | Unexpected overtime , low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants . |
| 3 | Marriage conflicts are opportunities for growth . |
| 4 | There have several times been movements for reform in the course of this century . |
| 5 | The receptor molecules are conduits for information , with one end outside the cell and the other inside . |
| 6 | Its main programmes are thoughts for the day and two regular programmes — one for children and one broadcast for adults on Sunday evenings . |
| 7 | It believes that the arts are forces for social and economic regeneration ; it believes in scholars and art experts from different countries meeting each other ; it believes in restoring monuments ; it believes in education ; it believes in bringing damagingly incompatible laws on cultural property closer together . |
| 8 | Organisations that have agreed in principle to let Phonelink hold and use their databases are Infocheck for company profiling ; the Automobile Association for identification of appropriate hotel accommodation , restaurants and guest houses ; Thomson Directories for finding business leads ; the Press Association for news ; Ordnance Survey for destination mapping ; British Rail for railway timetables ; British Weather Services ; and GB Mailing Systems for postcode information . |
| 9 | The upshot of deifying humanity is this : animals are ours , animals are our property , animals are resources for us , animals are our tasters , animals are our tools . |
| 10 | Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios ; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity . |
| 11 | These parties are occasions for much social behaviour , including mating . |
| 12 | Average weights are 1,200kg for bulls and 700kg for cows , and their heights are , respectively , 150cm and 134cm at the withers . |
| 13 | That 's right : scalpers are fighters for justice , too . |
| 14 | The two packets are floats for the karabiners . |
| 15 | Braun said that the ‘ order books are cause for cautious optimism . |
| 16 | Among his best-known books are Food for Free , The Common Ground , The Unofficial Countryside , The Flowering of Britain and Home Country . |
| 17 | Linked with the development of the project in schools were plans for initiating and extending local authority inservice provision , as a means of disseminating good practice derived from the experience of selected schools , and to guide schools about to enter the project . |
| 18 | The anger he saw in her eyes was camouflage for the fear she felt . |
| 19 | The authorities ca n't decide which explanation they prefer ; either that the printing equipment is faulty , or that the duplicates are replacements for faulty notes that should have been destroyed . |
| 20 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 21 | Both nucleolin TPA/GKK motifs ( underlined in Fig. 2 ) and histone H1 SPKK motifs are substrates for p34 cdc2 kinase ( 5 , 6 ) , and we have previously shown with a monoclonal antibody , that various vertebrate nucleolin proteins share an antigenic epitope with histone H1 ( 7 ) . |
| 22 | Gardens are work for me , not leisure . ’ |
| 23 | Lighter winds are idea for novices and there 's windsurfing too . |
| 24 | Thinking about behaviour and its likely effects are prerequisites for considerate , helpful behaviour . |
| 25 | What are the limits on this form of organisation , in whose interests is it , and under what circumstances are claims for occupational control likely to be effective ? |
| 26 | As Hassan 's comment half-implies , it may in some areas be time for criticism to move on from the task of defining postmodernism in relation to its antecedents . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , like the cities of the pre-industrial era , modern industry-based urban areas were mechanisms for sustaining human contact . |
| 28 | Particularly opposed by the dissident RPR factions were proposals for the dilution of the traditional role of the party leader by establishing a confederation with other pro-Gaullist groups outside the RPR ( including dissidents ) , for the formation of a joint shadow cabinet with centrist and right-wing parties including the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) , and the proposal by another Renovator , Michel Noir , a potential presidential candidate , for the actual merger of the RPR with other elements of the opposition into a single party . |
| 29 | BP Technicians were runners-up for the second year running in the Wytch Farm annual five-a-side soccer tournament . |
| 30 | These observations differ from earlier findings in which scid mice were host for the same TCR -β transgene . |