Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 15 posts are supervisory and management jobs and the remainder are for checkout , shelving and other staff . |
| 2 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 3 | … The proceedings in the present case are for the direct purpose of handing the appellant over so that he may be dealt with on these charges . |
| 4 | Proceeds from the offering , which was managed by Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp are for working capital . |
| 5 | Apart from employment , the most serious implications of the policies of constraint are for housing . |
| 6 | A few , a tiny few , recognise how unreasonable this attitude is , but the overwhelming majority are for the time being standing firm . ’ |
| 7 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 8 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 9 | The two parts of this figure are for different values of the Prandtl number . |
| 10 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 11 | Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy . |
| 12 | What will the future be for Southampton , Leeds , Cardiff or Newcastle ? |
| 13 | Will he ensure that the vast amount of aid which has been sent into the region for military purposes will in future be for peaceful purposes so that the region 's social injustices are dealt with as rapidly as possible ? |
| 14 | Would not the best course of action be for employers to dismiss anyone who has addictive disease ? |
| 15 | Then one of them asked : ‘ Can you tell us what the Rules of Engagement were for your task Major ? ’ |
| 16 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 17 | Erm if the if the figure were for example forty one thousand , er would you still say that there should we 'd be putting the brakes on the train on too hard ? |
| 18 | The proposals in the accord were for general improvements in the judicial system , alterations to the electoral system to prevent fraud , decentralization for a participative democracy , and the modernization of state institutions . |
| 19 | To this end , Ritschl offered a fresh account of the nature of religion , an account which began by considering what religion is for . |
| 20 | If an abseiler becomes entangled and stuck during an abseil then the only remedy is for the instructor to cut the rope at the top . |
| 21 | The first for Hydro Electric is for the renewal of a maintenance contract for fire alarms at their Peterhead power station , while the second is to service the fire alarm equipment at Scottish Power 's Longannet power station . |
| 22 | The biggest entry is for the handicap singles with 74 players competing . |
| 23 | The ultimate deal is for the promoter to guarantee the band the whole £4,800 . |
| 24 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 25 | A further recommendation is for the setting up of an independent body of journalists that would abide by an agreed code of conduct . |
| 26 | The key recommendation is for new legislation , in the form of a fresh National Parks Act , stressing conservation and " quiet enjoyment " as the priorities in Park management . |
| 27 | ‘ How fit shooting is for all kinds of men : how honest a pastime for the mind ; how wholesome an exercise for the body . ’ |
| 28 | Obviously the main justification for location shooting is for outdoor work , but , given the costs of set-building , it is often realistic to film indoor material in a ‘ real ’ house — it is a moot point how ‘ lived-in ’ it ought to look : studio sets do tend to look like studio sets , but real houses are often too run-down to provide the slightly artificial air of super-tidiness which many commercials strive for and which at least some consumers seem to respond to . |
| 29 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 30 | It seems to me therefore , without laying down the proposition that the Moray Firth is for every purpose within the territorial sovereignty , it can at least be clearly said that the appellant can not make out his proposition that it is inconceivable that the British legislature should attempt for fishery regulation to legislate against all and sundry in such a place . |