Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 2 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 3 | This case is for information only . |
| 4 | sort of thinking , Ah this prayer is for the children , I 'll pray for the wonderful world that God 's created . |
| 5 | The prayer this afternoon is for doctors and hospitals . |
| 6 | A variation on this technique is for the Bank to announce a Minimum Lending Rate which , for a short period ahead , it will apply in any lending to the discount houses . |
| 7 | The next necessary act in this play is for the two to reassure each other of their discretion ; from the monk : And from the wife : Agreement on the sexual exchange is thus sealed : They can then indulge themselves in filling out the details of their play — and anticipating the events of the act to come — at a certain amount of leisure . |
| 8 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 9 | This award is for supercomputing time , rather than money ( indirect value around 12,000 Pounds ) |
| 10 | This course is for women only . |
| 11 | Critics of Guerreiro 's dismissal , however , stated that this decision was for foreign consumption , and pointed out that it was Collor himself who had delayed the boundary decision by six months in order to give FUNAI more time to study the region . |
| 12 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 13 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 14 | This department was for years managed by John Aldersley @ £6 : 0s. : 0d. per month and Daniel Bowden at £5 : 0s. : 0d . |
| 15 | What the result of this equation is for democracy is not always easy to see . |
| 16 | This action was for wrongful dismissal but the same principle applies in a claim for damages for personal injury . |
| 17 | This chapter is for those who may need to make decisions about equipping a teaching institution with video recording hardware . |
| 18 | And this figure is for each cell , not all the cells of a body put together . |
| 19 | The two parts of this figure are for different values of the Prandtl number . |
| 20 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 21 | The partial answer to this dilemma was for most of Laura 's exotic ideas to be available in a special , higher priced ‘ Decorator Collection ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 23 | This result was for just one set of enzymes — and hundreds are involved in detoxification . |
| 24 | Available straight or with honey , this vinegar is for general cooking and dressings for salads , including apples . |
| 25 | Every organisation needs good managers who understand how to make the enterprise work better , which is what this degree is for . |
| 26 | This window is for number four three six . ’ |
| 27 | This column is for bus fares and taxi fares spent on journeys for the firm . |
| 28 | The object of this exercise was for advisers to gain a view of the school from the eyes of a pupil — to experience the school day as a particular pupil would . |
| 29 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |
| 30 | Paddlers who normally carry a throwbag in a buoyancy aid back pocket will continue to do so but this holster is for those who do not have back pockets in their buoyancy aids or , indeed , bank support members not wearing buoyancy aids at all . |