Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallel to this there were demands for the encouragement of small firms [ Bolton Report , 1971 ] . |
| 2 | Southbound there were tailbacks for miles . |
| 3 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 4 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 5 | Within this overall figure of 1,230,000 there were sub-ceilings for France , Italy , Portugal , Spain and the UK , which all currently imposed national ceilings on Japanese car imports . |
| 6 | ‘ You only have to look at the number of players with top clubs in the present squad — Arsenal 's Steve Morrow is another example — and it 's obvious there 's hope for the future . |
| 7 | Come the Seventies it was time for a rethink . |
| 8 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 9 | These cursory snippets frown past , for that alas is all there is space for here , at least show how the contemporary anthropological understanding of witchcraft throws new and ( at least in some quarters ) welcome light on what were until recently unusually dark and baffling corners of our history . |
| 10 | From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion . |
| 11 | This was certainly an underestimate , and altogether between 1962 and 1976 there were records for the breeding season from 35 sites involving a possible 38 pairs ; breeding was proved in 12 sites . |
| 12 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
| 13 | Similarly in 1925 there was praise for von Stroheim 's Greed , which was a movie version of the Frank Norris novel McTeague . |
| 14 | Crystal ( 1984 ) makes a strong case for providing a detailed transcription of the language of all those who are candidates for assessment . |
| 15 | Still to come ; gay activists are holding a demonstration in London tonight , but first there are calls for doctors and surgeons infected with the AIDS virus to be forced to declare their illness to patients . |
| 16 | At first there was support for this construction from some liberal quarters , encouraged by the government 's commitment to ‘ eliminate ’ over-crowding . |
| 17 | Charges are £95 for a call-out and the first 100 sheep ; after that it 's 40p for each extra animal . |
| 18 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 19 | In particular there are implications for the policy/ administration dichotomy , equity and accountability ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 20 | In particular there were calls for the resignation of the state Interior Minister , Lothar Kupfer , who initially expressed " a certain understanding " for the rioters . |
| 21 | In 1454 he was alnager for Northamptonshire and Rutland , charged with examining the measurement and quality of woollen goods in those counties . |
| 22 | At last there 's hope for the many hundreds of children whose lives are made a misery by birthmarks . |
| 23 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 24 | From 1906 to 1910 he was MP for Sutherland . |