Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent contribution by the Dulverton Trust has been for the instalment of Dr Peter Ridgway Watt 's windows in the new wing of Wills Hall . |
| 2 | The current polarity is important in the permanent-magnet motor ; the rotor position illustrated is for positive current in winding A , a switch to positive current in winding B would produce a clockwise step , whereas negative excitation of B would give anticlockwise rotation . |
| 3 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 4 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 5 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 6 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 7 | This time axis shown is for radiation . |