Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [is] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The last thing we want is for someone to pop up unmarked and score a goal . |
| 32 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 33 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 34 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 35 | Now all we need is for The Stone Roses to resume their proper business ( which is making records ) and clear away all the current rubbish in the chart ( That would surely mean that The Stone Roses would have to release 100 singles which would all have to chart . |
| 36 | What we need is for all of us , men , women and children , to be open to and comfortable with all these feelings . |
| 37 | ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’ |
| 38 | What we need is for every single appeal stage , for the member to at least have the right to know why he or she has lost . |
| 39 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 40 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 41 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 42 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 43 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 44 | And Carol and Ann are white and all it needs is for one of them to lead the other , censoring friendship , arousing hostility . |
| 45 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 46 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 47 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 48 | All He wants is for you to be truly sorry . |
| 49 | All he wants is for the RAF to make sure it does n't happen again . |
| 50 | He says all he wants is for the lies to stop . |
| 51 | All it takes is for society to accept the conviction that the imposed form of existence does more harm than good . ’ |
| 52 | His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel . |
| 53 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |