Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday school was a " must " for many of the children and the institution was for teaching the " three R's " as well as the obligatory religious instruction . |
| 2 | Re-engineering is for designing a development environment ; utilising existing systems ; building data and process models ; mapping old systems to new ; and planning the migration of data , code , user interfaces and communications . |
| 3 | The glue is for pasting the various classifications on to the shelves . |
| 4 | Now MyMouse Com is for running the serial mouse . |
| 5 | The 3 box is for entering a technique , which we will do later . |
| 6 | The knob at the rear is for setting the pointer to any desired position for calibration . |
| 7 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 8 | Type B jobs are where the responsibility is for maintaining a level of competence and efficiency in an on-going activity , a departmental management role . |
| 9 | Type A jobs are where the responsibility is for completing a finite task in a finite time , the typical project leader situation . |
| 10 | A postscript exemplifies Miller 's independence , an attitude which ultimately caused friction with his employers : ‘ Pray take no notice to any body what I sent you , for some of our Company is for making a law that I should part with nothing without the consent of the company . ’ |
| 11 | The City and Guilds 201 certificate was for doing a course on the theory and practical aspects of machining and was presented by the director general of Lincoln Technology College , John A Barnes . |
| 12 | This other cleat is for adjusting the out-haul , we 'll come on to that in a moment . |