Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 One of the biggest problems for Ferguson is that opponents always raise their game against Manchester United .
2 The great thing for Ben is that he has Peter Winterbottom on one side of him and ‘ Lazarus ’ on the other .
3 ‘ A problem for Falconer is that he is just on the way back .
4 ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead .
5 Their justification for TCG was that there is no fundamental difference between capital gains and income , since they both represent ‘ accretion of economic power ’ and should both , therefore , be taxed .
6 One difficulty for Mountbatten was that the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , took a view of the situation closer to that of Gracey than that of the Supreme Commander : ‘ Bevin is behaving like the worst conservative diehard , ’ wrote Edwina Mountbatten in another context .
7 The unfortunate news for Scotland is that even should they eclipse Western Samoa today , the Fijian national seven palpably await in the quarter-final .
8 The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys .
9 Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share .
10 A serious problem for Medeva is that it is too small to maintain a research programme of its own .
11 Once both yards are in the private sector , the danger for Rosyth is that Devonport bolstered by its secure base-load of Trident contracts , will be able to undercut the Scottish yard for surface work too .
12 The main conclusion drawn is not only that modern scientific notions of time are in many ways puzzling and paradoxical ; even more important for Shallis is that the essential quality of our actual experience of time is left out of such treatments altogether .
13 One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus .
14 A goal from Cliftonville striker Ron Manley in the first half was enough to settle this most disappointing affair ; the only consolation for Linfield is that they 're already through to the quarter-finals .
15 The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) .
16 A more pressing issue for Europe is that no makeshift Italian government is likely to cut Italy 's public expenditure , let alone raise taxes , to reduce public debt to make the 1993 deadline set for European convergence at Maastricht .
17 Thus the imperatives for Europe are and will remain , to lower oil dependence , to achieve a better balanced diversity of supplies , to make the most of indigenous supplies where they are economical and to continue the drive to greater energy efficiency .
18 The inequalities ( 9.7 ) for P1/T3 are and these have no non-negative solution .
19 The consolation for him and for Britain is that he has been far better prepared for the emotional pressures of his destiny than ever his father was .
20 The lesson of Jutland for Britain was that it should never have been fought .
21 The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use .
22 A key exclusion for KPMG is that contained in paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 FSA .
23 The danger for Leeds was that as they began to over-extend themselves they would become exposed at the back , where they are at their weakest .
24 Another first for Leese was that Stamford was the only place in the country where Fascists fought and won an election , for in contesting an election Leese broke the cardinal rule of the British Fascists never to intervene in the despised democratic system .
25 Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera .
26 Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera .
27 The real developmental loss for Ghana is that most of the power from the Volta goes to VALCO , so there is little left for local use .
28 The problem for Sombro was that at the mere age of three , he was getting old before his time because of his rampant ways and , by the look of the scars on his face , ears and neck , he was n't finding it any easier to hold his own with the competition .
29 One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture .
30 Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs .
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