Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the projects are for building new homes but modernisation and refurbishments are included . |
| 2 | Riggers are for letting , lining out and landscape applications . |
| 3 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 4 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 5 | That in lower income groups , not because you could n't afford to heat the bedrooms , but there 's a definite idea that bedrooms are for sleeping in , rather than living in . |
| 6 | However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context . |
| 7 | The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors . |
| 8 | What had her motives been for keeping quiet then , for not behaving as ( perhaps ) most women would have behaved ? |
| 9 | The owner will have spent time finding out about his territory ; where the best sites are for hiding , where the best food is to be found . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 11 | Some of these functions are for moving , adding and deleting points from your shape , whilst others are concerned with manipulating the entire shape . |
| 12 | For the purposes of the tape I think er we ought to explain that our management meetings are always run on very serious lines with no , no jokes allowed , er first of all I think we should just place on the record that this meeting is being taped everybody recognises that , and the purposes are for to analyse everybody 's linguistic ability and later on Tracy 's going to recite her piece her presentation for the purpose of the tape . |
| 13 | The remaining rear sockets are for connecting a volume pedal , headphones ( mini jack ) , stereo outputs and guitar input . |
| 14 | The celebrations were for having pulled it off , but it was also time for many people who had been involved in the project to leave . |
| 15 | In his book , Saturdays were for racing , betting and boozing — nothing else and he rarely strayed beyond the local corner pub . |
| 16 | Important as these two above opportunity structures are for facilitating corporate crime , the greatest opportunity lies in their ability to prevent their actions from becoming subject to criminal sanctions in the first place . |
| 17 | Erm how suitable would you say the flats are for bringing up children ? |
| 18 | ‘ Life is for living and , for God 's sake , tables are for putting mugs down on . ’ |
| 19 | But what might the reasons be for saying such a thing ? |
| 20 | The higher success rates were for providing column headings in a table , around 85 per cent for supplying " thousands ' and " hundreds " given " tens " and " units " . |
| 21 | Other suggestions were for campaigning and . |
| 22 | Miss Ross said : ‘ I am not sure just what the procedures are for getting hold of a gun . |
| 23 | The remaining six controls are for setting parameter values , effect variations or turning the effect on/off , depending on which mode the A2 is set to . |
| 24 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 25 | This comes in the wake of a Labour Party survey showing fundholders nationally making profits as high as £100,000 and being given four times the amount non-fundholders are for spending on computers . |
| 26 | The swing tickets are for pricing your garments and also for giving washing instructions and fibre content . |
| 27 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 28 | However , the seminars are for teaching and there is no aim to make a profit — not many events in the Uk are like that . |
| 29 | Sundays were for sitting silently with a bible in front of you . |
| 30 | Friday afternoons were for easing up and winding down . |