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

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1 no , and mean end up doing separate stew mum I am for myself it 's not fair that because I ca n't eat
2 The Engineering Council also operates the Technology Enhancement Programme which is for 14–19 year olds and aims to increase capability in technology , mathematics and science , developing skills that are matched to the needs of industry .
3 We have to understand the pleasure there is for women in such fantasies .
4 WHAT a tragedy it is for tennis that Dan Maskell ( right ) has gone .
5 With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise .
6 The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours .
7 Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls .
8 But her smile was strange — as if she was sharing a secret with me , that this was an illusion it was for us two , not the old man , to foster .
9 Work in progress which is for a specific contract or customer order would not require provisions unless circumstances so indicated .
10 The definition of non-equity shares is widely drawn , so that any right to a dividend or to a redemption payment which is for a limited amount will have the effect that the shares will be considered non-equity shares , irrespective of the other rights they may enjoy .
11 I ask Rachel what kind of work there is for a woman alone with two kids .
12 Labour condemned General Noriega as a corrupt dictator , but Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , demanded to know what rationale in international law there was for the invasion .
13 His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January .
14 For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds …
15 I would like to emphasise how valuable an exercise it is for students and teachers to attempt to analyse some recorded speech for themselves .
16 You do n't know Stella , what er a delight it is for us to have you .
17 A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug .
18 But if it is n't true , then of course she 's for a flogging and prison : or worse . ’
19 A is central heating , C is car parking , D is street car parking , E is special diets catered for , F , tea and coffee making facility , G is television in bedrooms at no extra charge I is for answering and J K , I 've , I 'm , just to go all through this , disabled facilities , L separate M bedrooms available with private telephones in , it 's N , number of bedrooms available with private bathroom and toilet or shower and toilet .
20 The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost .
21 Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying .
22 The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges .
23 The greater the contribution of context in the sense of shared knowledge and experience the less need there is for grammar to augment the association of words .
24 I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image .
25 And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party 's revised prospectus .
26 We do not know what legal or moral basis there was for it .
27 The more categories that are used , of course , the less room there is for category error .
28 For if , as I suggested , the enormous vitality of the language of Ulysses can , among other things , make us smile and even laugh out loud , that fact alone will underscore how little room there is for laughter in the earlier texts .
29 It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs .
30 So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only .
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