Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] is [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you cut your toenails do n't leave them lying around on the floor , do n't make too much noise if you have to use the slop bucket at night and if you 're a shit-stabber then I 'll tell you now , my arsehole is n't for rent . |
| 2 | ‘ I owe the show a lot obviously , but my contract is up for renewal in June this year and I will have to think about it seriously then . |
| 3 | And , since you 're so interested , the reason I wear my wedding-ring is strictly for the sake of appearances . |
| 4 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 5 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 6 | er , grass cutting in Borough Council , and I see their contract is up for renewal next year , is about the most disgusting grass cutting you could ever wish to see . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll just phone the Nobel Prize Committee and tell them their search is over for another year . ’ |
| 8 | Tax band:Letters will start going out in mid-January informing all householders of the band which their home is in for the new council tax . |
| 9 | She explains that her husband is away for the evening and she does n't want to return to an empty house . |
| 10 | ‘ Their pride is not for each other , it 's for themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ Uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ means a zebra crossing at which traffic is not for the time being controlled by a police constable in uniform or by a traffic warden . |
| 12 | His or her motivation is usually for strategic gain of their organization , the corporation , or the individual . |
| 13 | While the future is unknown , their past is there for us all . |
| 14 | Erm they 're the they 're there for a purpose and their size is there for a purpose in terms of er of the constrictions of the other road er sizing or whatever , and obviously huge vehicles who just ca n't possibly manoeuvre without going over . |
| 15 | PESC does not embody detailed analysis of policy operations ; its purpose is primarily for macroeconomic planning . |
| 16 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 17 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 18 | A rootless , needy humanity wanders through the dusty streets , unemployed , small vendors , the addicted , whose hunger is now for money to nourish the desire for cocaine . |
| 19 | His professionalism is there for all to see , all the time . |
| 20 | He thoroughly enjoyed the experience but his score is not for publication ! |
| 21 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 22 | His message is not for peace and goodwill . |
| 23 | My lord of Gloucester displays the utmost affection for his nephews — his care is solely for their welfare and he judges that Prince Richard 's place at this auspicious time is with the king his brother . |
| 24 | If a great opera such as this has difficulty holding a place in the repertoire , what hope is there for the merely excellent ? |
| 25 | ‘ God , ’ Vincent groaned , ‘ what hope is there for any of us ! ’ |
| 26 | If you ca n't manage it twice a week in a part of the country which has n't seen any action since the Wars Of The Roses , what hope is there for the rest of us ? |
| 27 | I managed to live in Africa for years without feeling too hot , so what hope is there for me in England ? . |
| 28 | If these upper- and middle-class criminals are also pathological , then what hope is there for any of us ! |
| 29 | What future is there for Paddy Ashdown ? |
| 30 | ‘ What future is there for Maureen in this situation ? |