Example sentences of "is [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 2 | THE search is on for someone to fill a top training post . |
| 3 | There 'll be a change in defence tomorrow Kevan Smith is in for his first game |
| 4 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |
| 5 | Right , erm , as you 've heard , this policy is basically for your protection , but it does over a number of years , acquire a bit of savings . |
| 6 | So , if you 've got a sister who 's a Rainbow Guide , do n't forget to tell her about this super section — after all it is especially for her , although you might find it useful too ! |
| 7 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 8 | Surprisingly the Canyon Conference Centre is enough for her . |
| 9 | A couple of hours of any party is enough for me , Brian has said , and we 'll have to stay until midnight , so I 'm certainly not turning up before ten . |
| 10 | It is enough for me to say that , on the basis of those two cases , the arguments of the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case struck your Lordships as being very powerful , but not sufficiently powerful to persuade your Lordships ' House that it need not refer the matter to the European Court of Justice under article 177 . |
| 11 | Now , I 've got ta tell ya , that in itself is enough for me to say close it , anything that 's related to Co Coronation Street . |
| 12 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 13 | ‘ Once is enough for him to be of use . |
| 14 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 15 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 16 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose studying the human animal is enough for you , ’ said Penelope . |
| 18 | Actually , we have earned our quiet time , for six months continuously in action is enough for anybody … ’ |
| 19 | Of course , you do not have to do things one of the standard ways if a system is only for your own use , and compatibility with someone else 's bar code system is not needed . |
| 20 | It is a mere trifle ; it is only for us to keep the fruits of the victory that they have won ’ ( Liverpool , 1903 ) . |
| 21 | It is only for us to accept what God in his mystery may send to us . |
| 22 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 23 | But ineligible recipients , with higher incomes , are affected by the kink in the budget line : the attractiveness of the in-kind transfer is less for them , and so the incentives to consume it illegally ( and the costs of policing such activity ) are reduced . |
| 24 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |
| 25 | This book is not for them . |
| 26 | But that is not for them to decide ’ ( I , 60 ) . |
| 27 | By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them . |
| 28 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 29 | But capital punishment is not for me in that category : it is not self-evidently harmful , not self-evidently unjust . |
| 30 | But it is not for me to moralize . |