Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What possible justification could there be for such coldness ? |
| 2 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 3 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 4 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 5 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 6 | Er we 're going to take questions at the end er the camera there is for internal use only and at the end we 'll hand out copies of the slides to anyone who wants them . |
| 7 | ‘ When you are with the only woman — the only one you think there is for that moment — you must love her and know her body as you would think a great musician would orchestrate a divine theme . |
| 8 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 9 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 10 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |