Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 The only sour note for Arsenal were cautions for Lee Dixon , John Jensen , Parlour and Tony Adams and a facial injury to Limpar .
2 It led the Bishop of Hippo ( near Carthage ) to write soon afterwards his great book The City of God , the first philosophy of history , in order to rebut the charge that the sack of Rome was punishment for the abandonment by its citizens of their traditional pagan gods .
3 But the see of London is work for the physically strong , not for declining energy .
4 Strong among the answers from the Rape of Hastings was blame for infiltration from Kent and the continued presence of ‘ wantonness , spleen or illwill ’ .
5 Specifically relevant to Eardwulf was adultery for , according to Alcuin , the king had dismissed his wife and publicly taken a concubine and Alcuin feared that this affront to God would soon cost him his throne.124
6 Thus , Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that if the trustees of , say , a life interest trust direct that trust income be paid direct to the beneficiary the trustees escape an income tax charge .
7 However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction .
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