Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would be delighted to be vehicle for this to happen . ’ |
| 2 | Just supposed to be word for word but it 's a bit of a erm Right , filling in booklet 's a er a bit of a pain . |
| 3 | Classes on child care , personal health and beauty or African music are currently only likely to be options for those with few alternative examination subjects . |
| 4 | One of the results of an active media relations service is likely to be requests for spokesmen for radio and television programmes , and special events and launches could lead to live coverage or even to a programme being made on the subject . |
| 5 | In such a setting arousal is expected to arise naturally from the situation confronting the driver and it is likely to be memory for the source of arousal which is of particular interest ( e.g. memory for the behaviour of another vehicle involved in an accident ) . |
| 6 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 7 | the benefit to B is capable of being consideration for B's promise , so that the promise will be legally binding . |
| 8 | A New Zealand court held that an undertaking by the government not to introduce legislation regarding the advertising of cigarettes was incapable of being consideration for a promise by a tobacco company because the government 's promise was of no value : it can not fetter the legislature : Rothmans of Pall Mall ( NZ ) Ltd. v. Attorney General [ 1991 ] N.Z.L.R. 323 . |
| 9 | Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know . |