Example sentences of "[be] for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 2 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 3 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 4 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 5 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 6 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 7 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 8 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 9 | It would be niggling to say that where a writer has used assistants his data cease to be primary , but it would also be foolish to ignore the fact that the more people there are involved in a project , the more opportunities there are for errors to creep in . |
| 10 | For technical reasons the values recorded on the ground are for areas measuring 57 m along the scan lines and 79m between scan lines . |
| 11 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of these jobs are for women working part-time . |
| 14 | Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public . |
| 15 | The concept of date de valeur is used to predict cash flow , by anticipating when items will clear the bank account , according to whether cheques are for banks classified as ‘ out of town ’ or ‘ in town ’ . |
| 16 | Company MBAs are for organisations wishing to sponsor 15 or more people . |
| 17 | The research assesses how difficult these different devices are for children to use and how this changes with age , relating performance to the development of the child 's spatial awareness . |
| 18 | The clothes themselves are for children aged nought to six and everything is made in this country , 80 per cent exclusively for Young England . |
| 19 | The second , and potentially more successful development , would be for Colleges to recognise the need for accurate information about costs , so that shortfalls in finance could be identified and addressed . |
| 20 | Stuart said ICL would be concentrating on SVR4.2 on Intel platforms , anticipating that its greatest impact would be for companies looking to implement true client/server installations , with SVR4.2 at both the client and server ends . |
| 21 | Both strategies have their place and it should be for teachers to determine the balance appropriate to their situation and the needs of their pupils . |
| 22 | Would not the best course of action be for employers to dismiss anyone who has addictive disease ? |
| 23 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 24 | If it is , it will be for reasons to do with overall levels of sentencing for many sorts of crimes , not merely those related to drugs . |
| 25 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |
| 26 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 27 | The only protection would be for neighbours to use different channels or to fit filters . |
| 28 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 29 | An alternative would be for patients to keep a daily record of their food . |
| 30 | For pupils with temporary problems , it will be for headteachers to decide whether the National Curriculum provisions should be modified temporarily . |