Example sentences of "[det] be [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you need people , well it , there 's , there 's been a programme on this morning there saying it 's not that there , this is vote for your , for your parliament you know , what you call it ? |
| 2 | In summer this was heaven for us because it sometimes took hours to put things right and we would miss a large chunk of lessons . |
| 3 | But the crucial point about pretence or acting is that these are activities for which there are criteria too . |
| 4 | These are objects for which the compact object is normally thought to be a neutron star ; the most popular model for the QPOs involves interaction between an accretion flow and the magnetosphere of the neutron star . |
| 5 | It ought to be able to offer more psychological and psychiatric help to the men who inhabit its strange , grey world ; more group work as well as individual help is acknowledged as being required by the staff , including the Probation Officer , who have a special responsibility for it , for these are men for whom the risk of reconviction is often very high . |
| 6 | I gather you 're a leading light in the arts — these are mine for my sins . ’ |
| 7 | none of these are starters for their teams right now and some are not even on the bench ( Lydersen , Strandli ) . |
| 8 | Not everyone would feel that these were messages for them ; many people always turn to the cartoon page first of all , and some do n't read much more than that ; God gives Jeremiah several cartoons in the course of this passage ; did you notice in verse 25 the dig about wearing your feet out — because the people had already worn their shoes out ! |
| 9 | But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep . |
| 10 | There either is room for them in this society , and an eventual hearing ( whether pre- or post-martyrdom ) , or there is n't . |
| 11 | That is checkmate for his argument . |
| 12 | Mentally , at least , I issued the challenge in respect of this well presented and impressively referenced volume and am now convinced that is folly for anyone performing analyses on biological samples to remain ignorant of what electroanalysis can offer . |
| 13 | It is true that Spinoza is famous for having denied the existence of final causes in nature in the sense in which Aristotle believed in them , that is purposes for which each thing existed . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's mothers for you . |
| 15 | That 's cricket for you . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's Rodo for you , ’ said the voice . |
| 17 | That 's pens for you . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's gratitude for you . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's America for you ’ Agnes said shaking out her hastily packed clothes . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's females for you , ’ said Gurder . |
| 21 | That 's Catherine for you in n it ? |
| 22 | ‘ What 's happening to surfing is happening to everything , ’ Terry said , ‘ that 's progress for you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That 's women for you , ’ Polly retorted blithely . |
| 24 | That 's Peter for you . |
| 25 | That 's democracy for you . |
| 26 | That 's equality for you . |
| 27 | I suppose that 's justice for you . ’ |
| 28 | That 's Frenchmen for you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That 's MacQuillan for you , ’ said Harbury with a shrug . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's humans for you , ’ the Doctor muttered , too quietly for Mortimer to hear . |