Example sentences of "be [noun sg] for [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 " It 'll be work for somebody , anyway .
2 you know , I mean , there must be compensation for something must n't there ?
3 Now there are a lot of supporters , er are they going to be er , is there going to be room for everybody ?
4 ‘ Do n't you realise , there could never be room for anyone but you .
5 Gandhi actually recognizes the problem of relativity and acknowledges that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another .
6 There seemed to be space for everyone .
7 Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know .
8 It will be time for something completely different on Saturday when Sid Kipper brings his simple country wisdom to the West Cliff .
9 It 's money for nothing and danger-free as long as you keep shut . ’
10 Kenny does the same , and he relates animal wants to Aristotle 's notion of epithumia , or sensual desire : ‘ It is felt desire , and it is desire for something now , desire which is more or less continuously felt until it is satisfied ( like hunger , sleepiness , thirst ) ’ ( 1975 : 49 ) .
11 If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems .
12 There is room for everyone and you will be made very welcome .
13 Fourteen people attended the first meeting last week but Phyllis Horsley , a member of the Darlington Trust said : ‘ There is room for everyone ; we need more people who can help with conservation work , people who can help record data on local animals and plants , and older people who just want to help raise money . ’
14 Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates .
15 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 .
16 Decision is torment for anyone with imagination .
17 I have some wonderful memories which I will always cherish but it is time for someone else to take over .
18 It 's time for everyone to have a super time !
19 Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction .
20 ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . )
21 There was work for everyone .
22 Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done .
23 Mr Wallace 's shadow lies heavily across the state where he was governor for four terms and where his wife Lurleen ( who has a museum to herself , complete with wax mannequins wearing her clothes ) was governor for one .
24 She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with .
25 Lizzy Burrows was game for anything and everything .
26 She , Rosie , was game for anything , but poor Carlo had n't been feeling exactly chipper .
27 He cleared his throat , casting about for something to say which would indicate that though he was game for anything , he nonetheless knew how to keep his hands to himself .
28 If I said I needed a member of the cast to be doused with a bucket of water , he would be the first to volunteer ; he was game for anything .
29 There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves .
30 After the fun and games of the Cheranganis it was time for something a bit more serious , so we headed for Mount Elgon , in the far west of the country , straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda .
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