Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is any consolation , the whole question of arrangement seems just as much a problem for people with enviably rare and valuable collections as it is for those with hardly enough to call a collection of anything . |
| 2 | Getting used to an all-female environment must have been just as much a shock for Eva . |
| 3 | Yet the consequences of any significant changes are a matter of the utmost concern to planners and to politicians at all levels , the quantification of the costs and benefits of alternative policy strategies is very much a matter for economists , and the adaptation of societies to massive change is a particular interest to sociologists and others . |
| 4 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 5 | Rosaline is very much a match for Berowne ; this is her last challenge to him , at a moment in the play when death has blown all comedy away . |
| 6 | This is very much a book for specialists . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's very much a future for DOS . ’ |
| 8 | The product range includes equipment for medical uses : eg a vehicle for children with spina bifida and portable kidney machines . |
| 9 | The work they 've put in , erm , and obviously , if you give your support to erm , make them a grant , it 's basically a grant for adults . |
| 10 | It is basically a call for people , oppressed people , to have more control over their own lives , to shape their world and to use modern resources and technology to do so . |
| 11 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 12 | Data integration is especially a problem for geographers because information synthesis is at the very heart of the discipline . |
| 13 | So it is especially a matter for satisfaction that the signatories nevertheless provided a chapter in support of the specified objective . |
| 14 | Yes I mean I acknowledge that that is rightly a matter for investigation establishment through the local plan system . |
| 15 | His enduring legacy was on the Papworth estate , where he left behind , not merely a reputation for kindness and generosity , but a series of ‘ new model cottages ’ for farm workers which continued to be appreciated several decades after his death . |
| 16 | This restoration of the sense of life may well be an effect frequently produced by techniques of making strange , but Shklovsky makes it clear that in the end the object itself is not important , but merely a pretext for art . |
| 17 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 18 | It should not be assumed that such an argument was merely a cloak for self-interest and greed . |
| 19 | Pushed to its limit , the argument implies that content is merely a vehicle for process . |
| 20 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 21 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
| 22 | EUROPE must be a Community for people , not merely a Market for business . |
| 23 | Who knows ? perhaps a figure for evil or the place of sinfulness and evil . |
| 24 | Whether they were poor because they were lame , or lame because they were poor , was perhaps a matter for sociologists , and a few years later , when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford , it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 25 | There is perhaps a need for employers to be educated to adopt a more pragmatic approach rather than treating cases with an ‘ it 's the principle of the thing ’ attitude . |
| 26 | A dull , cold , rainy day does not literally mean ‘ sadness ’ — it is possible to be happy on such a day — but it is so obviously a metaphor for sadness that when it appears in writing it has become a cliché , intended to trigger a predictable response . |
| 27 | Well , this was obviously a job for Joanna , but … |
| 28 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , said : ‘ This is obviously a cause for concern . |
| 29 | Steve Jobs is obviously a glutton for punishment . |
| 30 | Failure to pay moneys owed to the firm This is invariably and obviously a ground for expulsion . |