Example sentences of "be a [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If they did , however , then Stefan Edberg , the world 's leading tennis player , would surely be a candidate for opening batsman for the test team .
2 In much the same way , there are situations where all seems to be a candidate for reinforcing certain patterns of plural reference .
3 Where such pupils also have speech impairments , there may be a case for exempting them altogether from — or modifying — some of the assessment arrangements , even if they continue to pursue the attainment targets and programmes of study .
4 First , there may be a case for shifting the evidential burden of establishing consent on to the shoulders of the defence in certain cases , such as where there is evidence of injury inflicted by the defendant , where weapons are used or where sexual intercourse takes place in the context of the commission of another grave offence .
5 The implication is that if effective democracy at the enterprise level depends on the existence of relatively small units , there may be a case for dismantling large-scale capitalist enterprises .
6 If the answer is no , there may be a case for dismissing the attempt to apply to education management some of the models which are drawn from business and industry .
7 I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities .
8 You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see .
9 The only scenario in which there would be a case for building a PWR as soon as possible on the grounds of plant shortage involves a sustained increase ( 4 per cent growth per annum ) in manufacturing output from 1979/80 .
10 But when it comes to the Social Charter there may well be a case for slowing the grandiose Delors ideas .
11 There may be a case for replacing her with someone else later , having a series of nurses rather than a permanent one , in case she becomes overemotionally involved .
12 No longer would their errors be held to ridicule in respect of run-outs , stumpings and certain other contentious issues ( but not lbws or bat-pad catches — though there could be a case for relieving the umpires of the task of no-balling ) ; nor could players justifiably feel disgruntled for the superior eye of the camera would be deciding their fates with pronounced accuracy , ensuring that justice was done and seen to be done .
13 ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested .
14 Does he further agree that there might be a case for extending the training of social workers , especially in this area ?
15 Both I and my hon. Friend have received representations from the Southampton eye hospital , suggesting that there might be a case for extending the provisions of the Bill to ophthalmic casualty .
16 On a general revision , there might well be a case for extending that distance in view of the development of the central area which has taken place since the six miles was first established .
17 The reason for this is that in my submission to the York greenbelt local plan enquiry , I suggested that there could be a case for making an inset within the greenbelt to accommodate a new settlement .
18 Now that the exchange rate is around the $1.40 to $1.45 mark there could be a case for going back but we might have the difficulty of seeming opportunistic .
19 There may well be a case for fixing the ratio a year at a time .
20 The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels .
21 If this is so , there must be a facility for holding portions of text in parallel on screen , for altering either of them in any way desired , and for moving all or part out of one text and into the other .
22 Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) .
23 ‘ But on the other hand , at the same time , the minority is likely to become more integrated into national life , because short of reaching total political independence , a high level of assimilation seems to be a prerequisite for achieving empowerment .
24 ‘ But on the other hand , at the same time , the minority is likely to become more integrated into national life , because short of reaching total political independence , a high level of assimilation seems to be a prerequisite for achieving empowerment .
25 Adherence to a common currency would not be a prerequisite for joining the union .
26 There must also , normally , be a procedure for making the new rule or amending an old one .
27 On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide .
28 There also needs to be a plan for evaluating the project and the librarian and the teacher should discuss the evaluation of the pupils ' ability to use the microcomputer ( technical skills ) and their ability to make use of the information they gain from the microcomputer ( information skills ) .
29 In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying .
30 somebody needs to collect somebody needs to be a contact for getting all the information to by a certain date .
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