Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 2 | Our aristocracy is handsomer ( more hideous according to Chinese or Negro ) than the middle classes , from [ having the ] pick of the women ; but oh , what a shame is primogeniture for destroying Natural Selection ! |
| 3 | Thomas Knowlton ( 1691–1781 ) , a gardener employed first by William Sherard and then by the Earl of Burlington , wrote to Samuel Brewer in 1741 , ‘ as to Miller he does not look at poor men , only a lord or a duke is company for him ’ . |
| 4 | a It was a_________occurrence for him to be away from school . |
| 5 | Whereas the language of a and b is quite straightforward and all you require to arrive at an interpretation are values for expressions being used to refer , you may feel that the language here is obscure , perhaps not even meaningful . |