Example sentences of "[is] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 32 | She said ‘ It 's for a soldier who is far , far away . ’ |
| 33 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 34 | ‘ Well you ca n't , you know — it 's for older people now . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ It 's for your new room , ’ said his Mum . |
| 36 | ‘ He 'll not sell up and go into a Home , that 's for sure , ’ said his Dad . |
| 37 | The trouble was that nobody could quite remember where it was exactly , but everybody knew it was around there somewhere , that 's for sure . |
| 38 | We ai n't gon na have no limey runnin' Europe from Detroit , that 's for sure . |
| 39 | ‘ Well , he ai n't comin' here to Detroit , that 's for sure . |
| 40 | International business man , that 's for sure . |
| 41 | Sanders also ai n't gon na like it , that 's for sure . |
| 42 | They 'd have to move to a smaller house , that 's for sure . |
| 43 | ‘ Well , there wo n't be any European job functions , that 's for sure , ’ Muldoon said . |
| 44 | And that 's for run-of-the-mill managers . |
| 45 | Sometimes he went to his mother 's for dinner . |
| 46 | ‘ What d' you think it 's for ? ’ |
| 47 | That 's what it 's for the country . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's for that little slip of a thing at the end . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ And that 's for definite . ’ |
| 50 | That 's for me . |
| 51 | ‘ That 's for Charity . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's for the starving multitudes , ’ he whined through his matted beard , holding out the crock of gold in his blood-stained fingers . |
| 53 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ And that 's for deserting me , you bastard ! ’ |
| 55 | I do n't know that it 's for or against that he dotes on his wife . |
| 56 | That 's for you when you get caught short . |
| 57 | ‘ That 's for emergencies . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ That money 's for the future . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 60 | Robin Lee in The Times maintained that both books were beneath criticism , Faludi 's for using the ‘ low-brow , flirtatious idiom of Cosmopolitan magazine ’ , French 's for being ‘ aggressive and intemperate ’ . |