Example sentences of "it be for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . |
| 33 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 34 | We have the report and it is for noting . |
| 35 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 36 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 37 | It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | When I rang your bank to query this , I was told that it was for supplying information and bank statements to District Audit and that you were going to apply this to all Parish Council accounts . |
| 40 | If he had one talent above all — Alec Guinness has singled it out as his greatest gift — it was for reading verse with intelligence and passion . |
| 41 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 42 | and these two men would employ half a dozen other men , you see , and whether w whether it was for to get a foothold in the future for to be one of these contractors or not , I j I just do n't know . |
| 43 | ‘ I was no angel , but I was sent off just twice in over 20 years in the game and on both occasions it was for having a go at referees . |