Example sentences of "[det] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This Is for those people who think they are n't properly dressed unless they 've got the right badge on — and are guilty about their middle class backgrounds and so dress to look poor . |
| 32 | This is for three main reasons : |
| 33 | This is for sixth formers and teachers . |
| 34 | This is for next summer , but I think we could take a chance do n't you ? |
| 35 | Oh well this is for different kinds of metal you see |
| 36 | While the ideal perhaps remains the appointment of full-time professional librarians with a dual teaching qualification , at present this is for most schools in most LEAs a pipe dream . |
| 37 | So we shall have mashed potatoes this is for mashed potatoes . |
| 38 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 39 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 40 | This is for senior management groups to test if they know where they are going and the processes they use as well as the factors against which success can be judged . |
| 41 | This is for 300 man years of training ; industrial training beginning with 60 managers ; Polish managers training this year alone . |
| 42 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 43 | But this was for two flats . |
| 44 | erm it 's very interesting that in the Old Testament there 's no legislation about homelessness at all , which indicates it was n't a problem , and I suspect that this was for two reasons . |
| 45 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 46 | Sometimes they stressed the usefulness to their own careers of studying a science degree , and this was for some the determining factor in choosing between science and arts . |
| 47 | to represent , to represent , this was for voluntary services . |
| 48 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 49 | In the 19th century and into the 20th there were two Methodist chapels in the village and this was for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion . |
| 50 | For example , one group focused specifically on the particular problems and needs of Asian parents , another was for older parents and carers , and several groups provided significant elements of direct service . |
| 51 | I think the reason the British like it so much is for one thing it is normally sunny , there are some shots outside when it is rainy and overcast , but it comes across as bright and cheerful and it is an ideal sort of world . |
| 52 | These are for illustrative purposes only and can not be guaranteed by Midland Life . |
| 53 | An RGU spokesman said ‘ We currently have two teaching posts which are supported by Scottish Office money and these are for approved courses in textiles . |
| 54 | These are for physical warmth , food , clothing and cleanliness . |
| 55 | These are for fat people , and there are enough of them about . |
| 56 | These were for higher wages , reduced differentials , greater workplace control and more shopfloor participation in bargaining . |
| 57 | Examples of the latter are for dummy entries in a table of instructions , or as an alignment filler in a computer with variable-length instruction formats . |
| 58 | The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages . |
| 59 | The only reason I shave at all is for other people . |
| 60 | Only 87,300 grants were paid last year and 42,000 of those were for minor repairs or facilities for disabled people . |