Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] for many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience .
2 Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co .
3 But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge .
4 It should be apparent therefore that public transport is for many people on Skerne Park a lifeline link to town centre and vital facilities such as supermarkets and doctors .
5 Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar .
6 Mr Major told the Commons yesterday the EC economies ‘ are not remotely ready for one currency and I believe they will not be ready if they every will be for many years . ’
7 Noise is a potent trigger and its constant presence is for many teachers very wearing .
8 Family Allowance as it stands at present is for many women the only money we have which belongs to us by right .
9 But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general .
10 Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions .
11 In the courtyard , a 14th-century half-timbered and thatched roof building was for many centuries the local courthouse where justice was meted out .
12 The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside .
13 Although the human operator is for many purposes within ergonomics appropriately considered as a mere information processing device , any design issue must be considered in the context that these human operators are individuals and citizens within communities .
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