Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to dancing , both my husband , Rod , and I are musicians for the team ; I play the recorder and he is a ‘ cellist . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be naive and stupid to think we have a walkover just because we are favourites for the First Division title . |
| 3 | We 're typists for a firm of account-ants in Charing Cross . ’ |
| 4 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 5 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 6 | But however that 's the way things went and er we were distributors for the Morris for Selkirkshire and Peebleshire . |
| 7 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 8 | In Britain this is reinforced by such practices as attending a number of dinners a term in the Inns of Court while they are students for the Bar ; in both Britain and the United States there is the shared experience of dealing with problems from a legal perspective and extensive contact with other lawyers . |
| 9 | They are singers for whom singing and rehearsal are constant duties that are not always ( to say the least ) touched by concerns of high art . |
| 10 | These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions . |
| 11 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 12 | They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum . |
| 13 | They are arguments for , if anything , de criminalisation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 16 | They are highways for dead souls moving into paradise and often carry emigrants deep into the heart of a new country . |
| 17 | And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource : water . |
| 18 | They are recipes for disaster when you are entertaining . |
| 19 | The different species of trees are not all making their livings in exactly the same way , but as far as the particular race we are talking about is concerned — the race for the sunlight above the canopy — they are competitors for the same resource . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They are frameworks for assessment , not formulas to be rigidly applied . |
| 22 | Thus they are struggles for modernization . |
| 23 | They are fighters for the freedom of our people ! |
| 24 | They are votes for a person . |
| 25 | At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb . |
| 26 | However , these concepts do not constitute a theory of word perception or production : they are names for structures and processes whose nature is to be explained by any theory of word perception or production . |
| 27 | Bingham says they 're ones for the future but how can we gauge their potential on a substitutes ' bench . |
| 28 | Yeah well they 're agents for Bradley , Bradford and Bingley |
| 29 | ‘ They 're ferns for my Nature collection , look you . |
| 30 | Advertising members of the family as if they were houses for sale |