Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] are for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 2 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 3 | ‘ No more anxious than you are for the return of the Earl of Gloucester , madam , ’ he countered . |
| 4 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 5 | There are no hard and fast rules for judging when a workshop qualifies for this accolade , any more than there are for conferring greatness on people and institutions in other forms of art ; but it is normally reserved for workshops which consistently produce outstanding items under the direction of a masterweaver , who is accepted by his peers as a pre-eminent exponent of his art . |
| 6 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 7 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 8 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 9 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 10 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 11 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 12 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 13 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 15 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 16 | 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts . |
| 17 | Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund . |
| 18 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 19 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 20 | ‘ Day is done ’ is of course another Shakespearean echo , like the Dark Tower : ‘ The bright day is done ’ , says Iras to Cleopatra , ‘ and we are for the dark ’ . |
| 21 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |
| 22 | They may seem inconvenient , but they are for your own safety . |
| 23 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 24 | A number of tags are missing from the Text710 tagset because they are for word types that are not found in dictionaries . |
| 25 | It is like going into Europe — the important thing is by reiteration to make people think , whether they are for it or against it , that it is inevitable ’ . |
| 26 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 27 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 28 | It will obviously take some time , you know Alex is , must be going through a terrible strain himself and he must be concerned about us er as we are for him . |
| 29 | There are then ‘ tell-tale gaps ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) in a text for the illustrator as there are for the reader . |
| 30 | There are complex historical reasons for this , just as there are for differences in the amount of seasoning used in cooking . |