Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth .
2 Guests included a large gathering of colleagues , both present and past , and representative of Jim 's earlier days in the Chief Accountant 's , Securities and Ledger Department , and Drumsheugh Branch , where he was Manager for four years .
3 Not only do you have to keep an eye out for hidden switches to help you get across treacherous terrain but , hardest of all , you have a time limit to complete the game — exactly 60 minutes — or it 's curtains for the Prince .
4 The game continues until one player has all 48 beads — or it is time for supper !
5 Everything is prepared very carefully ; food that wo n't spoil or collapse is made first and other dishes of a more fragile nature are left to the last moment so they are picture for the picture .
6 Two years later they bought another one , this time a brown standard poodle so they were company for each other .
7 Henry II , moreover , had performed homage while King and although it was homage for his continental possessions and not for his kingdom , this was a step to which none of his predecessors as Kings of England had ever steeled themselves .
8 Although it was policy for all children to be welcome in council provision , in reality this was highly variable .
9 Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction .
10 Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’
11 Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’
12 It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’
13 It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’
14 Disastrous tour poses leading questions Following so many mistakes by the England selectors , Jeremy Allerton suggests that it 's time for changes at the top
15 No wonder Americans have decided that it 's time for an end to non-interventionalist government .
16 I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance .
17 These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing .
18 Prolonged prosperity is as likely as prolonged adversity to engender the mood that it is time for a change .
19 An important lesson that has been learnt from the Beck case is that it is time for art historians to stop standing by in cowardice and make responsible evaluations of the restoration techniques used .
20 Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men .
21 All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain .
22 Presidential support scores are so inadequate and so subject to misinterpretation by students and others ( including presidents ! ) that it is time for Congressional Quarterly to consider abandoning them .
23 Hall reveals through his examination of Colnaghi documents that Berenson 's recommendations at times ‘ follow almost word for word , Gutekunst 's own letters to Berenson ’ , suggesting that it is time for a re-examination of the role of dealers as well as the more famous advisers in influencing taste .
24 That it is time for us to take our rightful place .
25 Does my hon. Friend agree that it is time for the public to play their part ?
26 My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames .
27 The friend replies that it was A. For Wigner the electron 's wavepacket then collapses into the state in which the spin is definitely " up " .
28 ‘ Look , I just felt that it was time for a change , that 's all .
29 Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election .
30 He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability .
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