Example sentences of "what [is] for [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’
2 what 's for you wo n't go by you You often
3 What 's for you here ?
4 What 's for you ?
5 Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations .
6 The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project .
7 Homo sapiens has chosen to venture into what is for him an unnatural environment and he does so at his peril .
8 Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet .
9 It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators .
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