Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 2 | All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to . |
| 3 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 4 | Another potential future LAN would be for Public Services and Publications , in view of the close functional links which have developed between some of their activities , and the need to minimise cost increases by sharing expensive hardware . |
| 5 | Not all visits would be for four weeks and not every Group would have exactly four visitors each year . |
| 6 | Their experience well illustrates Swords-Isherwood and Senker 's argument that the need will be for increased numbers of such workers , and that they should possess multiple skills : for example , electronics , electrical , and mechanical . |
| 7 | The first step in forging an alliance of Euro-Parliamentarians would be for national MPs to be invited to the special hearings on changes to the Rome Treaty being organised by the European Parliament . |
| 8 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 9 | It is anticipated that the usual request will be for all cross-references pointing to a given range of entries . |
| 10 | May apply to more than one contract , but ’ call off ’ orders should be for specific projects . |
| 11 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 12 | The appointment will be for two years in the first instance . |
| 13 | The period of the fixed-term appointment will be for three years dating from until |
| 14 | The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life . |
| 15 | A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits . |
| 16 | Imagine how much more critical performance will be for industrial-strength applications involving multiple linked files with customized applications on top . |
| 17 | The Focus Activity asks you to choose an alternative way of delivering care ; to describe how this could be implemented in your situation ; and what the consequences might be for individual clients , costs and staffing . |
| 18 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 19 | It 's incredible what an aphrodisiac the prospect of motherhood can be for some women . |
| 20 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 21 | After much discussion , the decision is to make arrangements for a three-year transition , with batches of courses being transferred to the new format in time for student enrolment in September 1990 , 1991 and 1992 : in the latter year , all initial student enrolments will be for new-style courses . |