Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 2 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 3 | If I 'm honest I 'll have to admit that the major application of my research will be for commercial drug production . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the total figure will be for new road schemes in the Antrim , South constituency for ( a ) 1992-93 , ( b ) 1993-94 and ( c ) 1994-95 . |
| 5 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 6 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 7 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 8 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 9 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 10 | Our desire can be for physical satisfaction , for wealth , power or the need for recognition , for satisfying the intellect or our heart , or simply for the seeking of pleasure . |
| 11 | Will he consider conducting an inquiry into what the optimum pupil-teacher ratio should be for each age of children , because that ratio will differ ? |
| 12 | The logical development would be for closer examination of early foetuses with a view to detecting minor deficiencies which many babies are born with . |
| 13 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 14 | The appointment will be for one year . |
| 15 | While the appointment will be for 1 year in the first instance . |
| 16 | A good theorist should be aware of the weaknesses in his theory , and his prime advocacy will be for more imagination in examining the issues involved and better experimentation wherever possible . |
| 17 | Loans can be for double glazing , cavity wall insulation , loft conversion , central heating — permanent improvements that make your home more comfortable to live in — and if you 're thinking of more than one improvement , a loan can be arranged to cover this . |
| 18 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 19 | Contracts will be for one year , beginning in Summer 1991 . |
| 20 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 21 | OPINION is divided in Japan on just how bad the soaring yen will be for Japanese business , especially the country 's famous exporters of cars and electronics . |
| 22 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 23 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 24 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 25 | Approximately 30% of the marks will be for straightforward handling of theory — but additional marks for pass , credit and distinction standard must come from the quality of the candidate 's understanding and ability to communicate in acceptable fashion . |
| 26 | The company 's first application developed with NeXTstep will be for retail autofinancing . |