Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] be for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The greater the contribution of context in the sense of shared knowledge and experience the less need there is for grammar to augment the association of words .
2 And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party 's revised prospectus .
3 For if , as I suggested , the enormous vitality of the language of Ulysses can , among other things , make us smile and even laugh out loud , that fact alone will underscore how little room there is for laughter in the earlier texts .
4 The more categories that are used , of course , the less room there is for category error .
5 It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs .
6 Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation .
7 But they also have certain weaknesses , for the more exact one tries to become about functions , the more slippery they become , and the more scope there is for variation and disagreement .
8 Teachers will have to judge whether computer schemes meet the needs of children , but also what scope there is for teacher initiative , knowledge and intuition once the scheme is in operation .
9 During the inter-war period what trade union support there was for family allowances ( generally it was feared that allowances would lead to a wholesale reduction in wages and reduce the bargaining power of male workers ) , was based on the hope that they would lead to a withdrawal of married women from the workforce .
10 Thus interest rates may be too high and so discourage investment , while what finance there is for investment is channelled into socially inefficient uses .
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