Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So eleventh-century courts were centres for ceremony , business , education ; Charlemagne would have sympathized with all of these . |
| 2 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 3 | In Europe , its most popular ranges are Jerzees for basic sports and leisurewear and Russell Athletic for followers of ‘ classic ’ American sportswear . |
| 4 | all players have played for norway 's a-team + marked players are regulars for norway ( and i guess fat-frank will be next year ) |
| 5 | Accompanying these fiscal restraints were demands for greater accountability over the ways in which schools used their resources and fulfilled their broader teaching responsibilities . |
| 6 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 7 | These parties are occasions for much social behaviour , including mating . |
| 8 | Thinking about behaviour and its likely effects are prerequisites for considerate , helpful behaviour . |
| 9 | The main means provided to DHAs to effect these changes are contracts for services between DHAs and suppliers ; reimbursement formulas based on resident populations ; resource management systems which align responsibility for incurring expenditure for its management more closely and provide information on costs of different activities ; and medical audit . |
| 10 | Er all of these men had moderate or severe symptoms , and all of these patients were candidates for surgery . |
| 11 | All these men were volunteers for world-wide service with the Second Australian Imperial Force , which provided the prefix 2 of the 2nd Company 's number ( the First AIF had served in World War I ) . |
| 12 | Obvious examples are convictions for driving offences , for defective vehicles under the Motor Vehicles ( Construction and Use ) Regulations 1978 ( SI 1978 No 1017 ) and in prosecutions by HM factory inspectors . |
| 13 | Erm and these measures are criteria for every plant worldwide . |
| 14 | Some very useful aids are rails for baths or toilets and hoisting machines for lifting people out of bed , from a chair or into and out of a bath . |
| 15 | Many conversations are tussles for status . |
| 16 | The classical examples are proceedings for payment , sale , foreclosure or redemption , but nowadays the most common are those for possession of the mortgaged property preliminary to an exercise of the mortgagee 's statutory power of sale out of court . |
| 17 | Broadly speaking , Chinese walls are procedures for restricting information flows within a firm to ensure that information that is confidential to one department is not improperly communicated , either deliberately or inadvertently , to any other department within the firm . |
| 18 | Unexpected overtime , low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants . |
| 19 | The only exceptions are shots for television or for the Sunday colour magazines ; unless these have been specifically arranged there is not much point in worrying about them . |
| 20 | There have several times been movements for reform in the course of this century . |
| 21 | Four-course meals that last four hours are marathons for everyone concerned . |
| 22 | The two packets are floats for the karabiners . |
| 23 | Maslow went so far as to say that ill people who treat their fellow men with kindness are forces for mental health and those who disdain or belittle other men are forces for mental illness . |
| 24 | All locks on external doors are candidates for rust : the answer again is to squirt in a lubricant on a regular basis . |
| 25 | As she stepped into the humming elevator , Chesarynth realized that the other doors were holograms for security . |
| 26 | Its main programmes are thoughts for the day and two regular programmes — one for children and one broadcast for adults on Sunday evenings . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , like the cities of the pre-industrial era , modern industry-based urban areas were mechanisms for sustaining human contact . |