Example sentences of "be for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 2 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 3 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 4 | would you accept that , that should be for the financial year ? |
| 5 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 6 | As noted above , there is some indication of the development of a rebuttable presumption that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts . |
| 7 | Yet , the very thesis that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts itself fashions the result that the court believes to be correct . |
| 8 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 9 | The deposits can be for the following terms : overnight , 1 week , or 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 or 12 months . |
| 10 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 11 | ( After the initial period future bills will be for the normal 13-weeks . ) |
| 12 | It will be for the privatised companies in due course to establish pensions arrangements for their employees . |
| 13 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 14 | If the creditor holds any security , he must specify the nature and value of the security and the demand must be for the unsecured portion of the creditor 's claim only . |
| 15 | This is because the mutual structure of the with-profits fund will remain and the investment returns on this fund will be for the sole benefit of the policyholders with a stake in this fund . |
| 16 | 6 Any taxes which the Publisher may have to withhold on payments to be made to the Proprietor hereunder , shall be for the sole account of the Proprietor . |
| 17 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 18 | When the subsidiaries are transferred to the private sector it will be for the new companies to make pension arrangements for employees . |
| 19 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |
| 20 | 1791 The Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan represent that the Church is much Injured by the Schools being kept therein and that it would be for the General benifit of the Parish to have a School House Built seperate from the Church … appoint a Committee for fixing the Stance of the School House and getting the same Built . |
| 21 | But these would be for the general benefit , not for the worse . |
| 22 | Leaving aside the problem of time order in the research , and whether their findings do indeed reveal genuine causal effects of coping behaviour , it is unclear how relevant such strategies would be for the general run of threatening events . |
| 23 | If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership . |
| 24 | Though McNish would not be drawn on the exact reasons for the call , it is believed to be for the vacant post of team test driver and understudy for Michael Schumacher and Riccardo Patrese . |
| 25 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 26 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 27 | Against such a challenge the first step must be for the professional body , i.e. the Library Association , to exercise its authority on its professional membership . |
| 28 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 29 | The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party . |
| 30 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |