Example sentences of "[noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 32 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 33 | Many of the requests are for practical , technical and vocational literature for all levels , from secondary schooling upwards . |
| 34 | Many requests are for details of fibreboard d-i-y projects — FIDOR can supply booklets which will enable you to construct a serving trolley , make a bedhead , build a stylish fire surround , or a kitchen island unit . |
| 35 | First fruits of the BBC PO/Tortelier 's three-year contract ( also see below ) will be an all-Hindemith programme ; the contract also allows for the BBC PO to record under the baton of Sir Edward Downes ( plans are for Glière and Respighi recordings — see too our new release listings ) . |
| 36 | Present plans are for this to be executed in January and February next year , and the bridge will provide the final link of roadways in this area . |
| 37 | Now planning councillors on both side of the Thames will have to consider if the plans are for a bridge too far |
| 38 | At a recent anti-diet rally in West Virginia , women smashed their scales and toted banners proclaiming : ‘ Scales are for fish , not women . ’ |
| 39 | However , although most of my patterns are for single-bed machines , I am becoming more and more interested again in playing with double jacquard . |
| 40 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 41 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 42 | The advertisers obviously wish to give the idea that their products are for blondes or light-skinned people only , or maybe that if you use their product you will suddenly be transformed into a seductive beauty with a string of young men at your fingertips . |
| 43 | Rewards are for the CB , not for stopping behaving badly when asked . |
| 44 | Mobile mums groups are for mums with ‘ mobile ’ toddlers who need toddler-proof houses but who are maybe not ready yet for the rough and tumble of Open houses . |
| 45 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 46 | The highest salaries paid to local authority officers involved with the arts are for Directors and Assistant Directors of Museums and Gallery Services . |
| 47 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 48 | The system is essentially diagnostic , the remedies are for the librarian to apply . |
| 49 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 50 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 51 | Between now and then , the row that biotechnology generates is going to make everyone think anew about what animals are for . |
| 52 | Quarrels are for lovers . ’ |
| 53 | I maintain that bilateral hearing is essential for sound location — as two eyes are for stereovision . |
| 54 | It 's where shaving 's for weddings , ties are for funerals and tea is brewed in a billy , then swung overhead to settle the leaves ( or to scare the spiders away , depending on who 's pulling your leg ) . |
| 55 | ‘ That , Vitali , is what Inquisitors are for . |
| 56 | ‘ The General Staff has at last discovered what fighters are for . |
| 57 | And so to war , and at first a very strange war , On either side it appeared that no one wanted to start the bombing war which in our way had been our long time plan — in fact the Trenchard theory that fighters are for defence , bombers for offence . |
| 58 | Thursdays are for more general appointments and those in banking , accountancy , engineering and management . |
| 59 | I would sum it up by saying cars are for work , not for worship . ’ |
| 60 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |