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

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1 In Britain this is reinforced by such practices as attending a number of dinners a term in the Inns of Court while they are students for the Bar ; in both Britain and the United States there is the shared experience of dealing with problems from a legal perspective and extensive contact with other lawyers .
2 And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn .
3 They are singers for whom singing and rehearsal are constant duties that are not always ( to say the least ) touched by concerns of high art .
4 These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions .
5 They are reasons for holding that it is not binding .
6 They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum .
7 They are arguments for , if anything , de criminalisation .
8 The lives of others , I believe , are not mere management problems , their despairs are not simply amenable to technical solutions which ‘ repair the system as it is ’ ; they are cries for radical solutions , solutions which go to the root of the problem : the structures of society which gnaw away at their lives , their self-worth .
9 It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother .
10 They are highways for dead souls moving into paradise and often carry emigrants deep into the heart of a new country .
11 And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource : water .
12 They are recipes for disaster when you are entertaining .
13 The different species of trees are not all making their livings in exactly the same way , but as far as the particular race we are talking about is concerned — the race for the sunlight above the canopy — they are competitors for the same resource .
14 Cor , oh they are mate for Saturday
15 They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea .
16 They are frameworks for assessment , not formulas to be rigidly applied .
17 Thus they are struggles for modernization .
18 Everything is prepared very carefully ; food that wo n't spoil or collapse is made first and other dishes of a more fragile nature are left to the last moment so they are picture for the picture .
19 They are fighters for the freedom of our people !
20 They are votes for a person .
21 At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb .
22 However , these concepts do not constitute a theory of word perception or production : they are names for structures and processes whose nature is to be explained by any theory of word perception or production .
23 Bingham says they 're ones for the future but how can we gauge their potential on a substitutes ' bench .
24 They 're company for each other are n't they ?
25 Yeah well they 're agents for Bradley , Bradford and Bingley
26 Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money .
27 They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy .
28 They 're ferns for my Nature collection , look you .
29 Advertising members of the family as if they were houses for sale
30 Sometimes they were illustrations for serious study or important social statements .
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