Example sentences of "[pron] be for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 2 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 3 | They are for some reason most dreadfully at home in Paris — ‘ |
| 4 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 5 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 6 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 7 | He was for some time a broken man . |
| 8 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |