Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 3 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 4 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 5 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 6 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 7 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 8 | But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace … |
| 9 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 10 | Does that mean it 's for me or Joe 's dad ? ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think it 's for me . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think it 's for you , sir , ’ said the postman . |
| 13 | I do n't think it 's for you just now Charlotte . |
| 14 | I do n't think it is for me . |
| 15 | She 's coming round , sh you know , she understands it 's for her benefit as well because the doors on the council houses they 're like that , just rotten ! |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's for your shepherd . ’ |
| 17 | I think it is for you purely to decide , that this application does not affect the house . |
| 18 | But , I think it is for your children , but erm I 've I worked er , before I had the children and |
| 19 | I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here . |
| 20 | So the information that is given us is for our information only , or ? |
| 21 | ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’ |