Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 2 | We have also noted above that Johnes ( 1990 ) in her study of student wastage notes that while A-level scores are important predictors for men they are not for women . |
| 3 | They are not for sale , ’ she added sharply and Melissa was at pains to reassure her . |
| 4 | But people feel banks are too unapproachable : as one of our interviewees put it , ‘ they are not for people who live on council estates ’ . |
| 5 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 6 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't say they are there for months but when they ca n't find a friend or relative to put them up they have to resort to anywhere to keep out of the wind and rain . |
| 8 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 9 | Fears are that callers will be held in a queue as they are now for Directory Enquiries . |
| 10 | the grave danger to the people as a whole from the extreme section of the Socialists , who are now beginning to openly admit they are out for REVOLUTION and CONFISCATION . |
| 11 | This team won 15–0 in a foreign friendly a few weeks ago , they are out for blood . |
| 12 | They are so for robbers too . |
| 13 | For most of course whether they 're here for fun or fame the aim is to make it all the way … |
| 14 | black tiny black forest gateaux , but they 're here for tea are n't they so |
| 15 | They 're just for decoration . |
| 16 | Said yes they 're both for Paul ha ha ! |
| 17 | But they 're not for Pussy , ’ she added , with a disapproving look at Faustina now held firmly in Sophia 's arms . |
| 18 | Well they 're not for amateurs are they ? |
| 19 | ‘ They 're not for people to read , ’ Emily said . |
| 20 | They 're not for sale . |
| 21 | They 're up for sale at an auction of film props to be held in Norton in Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | They 're specially for baking . |
| 23 | They 're in for punishment not nourishment . |
| 24 | They 're there for people to enjoy . |
| 25 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 26 | Well they 're only for sides , you know , I 'm , I 'm doing them like er |
| 27 | But again bear in mind they 're only for illustration purposes only . |
| 28 | They come in twos when they 're out for trouble . |
| 29 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 30 | Whatever , whatever they are , no , you 've got tabs there , but I 'm saying do n't use those up yet , they 're not tabs for stuff that 's going to be behind , they 're actually for pages and so on . |