Example sentences of "[noun] be for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would spoil the illusion if all the merrymakers were to think that their spending bonanza was for their own satisfaction . |
| 2 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 3 | As my hon. Friend knows , fiscal matters are for our right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 4 | But the plan is for us all to write a couple of things to put on an album . ’ |
| 5 | They are also closely associated with University College Cork , which makes it particularly pleasant to welcome them to Queen 's for their first visit . |
| 6 | Hurtled The plan was for his main chute to open at 3,000ft but it did not open and he hurtled to conclusion of the association 's investigation was that he had failed to locate the ripcord handle . |
| 7 | Resource-based learning places the pupil in the active mode , but equally its demand on the teacher is for his full creative involvement . |
| 8 | But if your need is for anything other than that , that is to say something a little more complex , then the functionality built into Designer Labels is probably powerful enough to do the trick for you . |
| 9 | But the gift is for you both . |
| 10 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 11 | For the men of Rochdale , desirable though the store at Toad Lane was for its immediate practical purpose , their principal objective remained the setting up of a Co-operative Community . |
| 12 | One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention . |
| 13 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 14 | The hide is for your sole use . |
| 15 | In that period as we danced , sang and recited night after night in the Cabaret Voltaire , abstract art was for us tantamount to absolute honour . |
| 16 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 17 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 18 | My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals . |
| 19 | Hagen 's iconoclasm was for his own benefit ; he never saw himself as a social campaigner on behalf of his fellow professionals . |
| 20 | The other two national winners are Tracy Young , who was born with two holes in her heart and could n't walk til she was five — her prize was for her personal achievement in ballroom and latin dancing … and Ronnie Broomhall who is the first person in the country with learning difficulties to become a qualified amateur gymnastics coach . |
| 21 | Without quantum theory there would be no genetic engineering , no solid-state computers , no nuclear power stations ( or bombs ) ; even Albert Einstein 's Nobel prize was for his pioneering contributions to quantum theory , not for his ideas on relativity . |
| 22 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |
| 23 | When she knew the plans were afoot to move her on her concern was for her second in command , a Sinhalese whom she considered worthy of being leader . |
| 24 | His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to . |
| 25 | A landscape without a mountain background is for me incomplete . |
| 26 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 27 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 28 | You should be aware of your own weaknesses if you have done a thorough selfassessment but the information is for your own eyes only . |
| 29 | The ethical " problem " arises from the fact that Ethics is for us inevitable and at the same time impossible . |
| 30 | ‘ As described in our engagement letter dated … , this report is for your internal use only and is not to be distributed except to … ( name of relevant parties ) or to be referred to or quoted , in whole or in part , without our prior written consent . ’ |