Example sentences of "it [is] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 32 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 33 | We have the report and it is for noting . |
| 34 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 35 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 36 | It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’ |
| 37 | There is not a case , however , for spreading central funding between universities more evenly ; rather it is for judging all UK universities more broadly on the excellence of both their science and their technology bases . |