Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 32 | There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through . |
| 33 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 34 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 35 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 36 | Selection has been for growth potential ; the average 400-day weight of bulls is 447kg and their mature weight 966kg , with an average withers height of 140cm ( the breed minimum is 132cm ) . |
| 37 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 38 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 39 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 40 | ‘ The most extensive evidence found is for the church built by Bishop Jocelyn . |
| 41 | The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either . |
| 42 | The arrangement Sting had signed with Virgin had been for a 50–50 split , rising to 60–40 in Sting 's favour after two years . |
| 43 | Architectural influence here is not notable since timber has been for centuries the traditional building material . |
| 44 | Which is , of course , roughly where conventional rubbish-collection policy has been for a long time . |
| 45 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 46 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 47 | This time axis shown is for radiation . |
| 48 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 49 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 50 | The remand had been for the purpose of the issue being tried by the justices on the Monday . |
| 51 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 52 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 53 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 54 | The Bolton area health authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers , and its chief executive , Richard Sutherland , said last night : ‘ Our first concern has been for the patients involved . |
| 55 | Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects . |
| 56 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 57 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 58 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 59 | It does not protect the farmers since so many are now in difficulties and the long-term trend has been for many to leave agriculture altogether . |
| 60 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |