Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [noun sg] is for " in BNC.

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1 Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " …
2 To this end , Ritschl offered a fresh account of the nature of religion , an account which began by considering what religion is for .
3 So we should probably begin by asking what college is for and reviewing the various arguments that surround it .
4 But if you 're taking several medicines , you might forget which medicine is for what .
5 This stress on will — " loke what wil is for in al " ( 70r. – 205 ) — is an aspect of the concern he expresses in Mixed Life for the importance of a " continuel desire to God " and in Scale 1 ( 22.295b. – 95 ) for a " hole and a stable entencoun " to please God which must underly all that the anchoress does .
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