Example sentences of "[pers pn] is for " in BNC.
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| 1 | very carefully chosen erm , G is your forward schedule , for next year onwards , H would be for God , otherwise known as the boss , I is for erm , otherwise known as colleagues , and J is for plebs , people who report to you , and K is the personal section , and L is new ideas schedule . |
| 2 | A is central heating , C is car parking , D is street car parking , E is special diets catered for , F , tea and coffee making facility , G is television in bedrooms at no extra charge I is for answering and J K , I 've , I 'm , just to go all through this , disabled facilities , L separate M bedrooms available with private telephones in , it 's N , number of bedrooms available with private bathroom and toilet or shower and toilet . |
| 3 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 5 | ‘ She 's very clever , ’ William said at once , ‘ making lovely shoes she is for them actresses in the theatre . ’ |
| 6 | A sense which can work against his best interests — for I need not repeat how much I respect Amaryllis , how entirely delightful and suitable I find her and how wonderfully rare she is for me who has — as man to man I can tell you what you must guess — several times been urged to marry . |
| 7 | I know her now and she is for my fool 's turn that will be caught by her . |
| 8 | The skirt pattern I 've designed for you is for Japanese machines , but I 've also made one for Passap/Pfaff . |
| 9 | ‘ Because it turns out that although she 's renting her flat while the owners are abroad , the flat that 's going opposite her is for sale , not rent . ’ |
| 10 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 11 | It is for active use , wrote Harsnet , not for contemplation . |
| 12 | Reading or hearing of other pilots ' experiences emphasises how easy it is for even seasoned pilots to make mistakes . |
| 13 | It is for this reason that Professor Desmond Pacey correctly posits Leonard in his second category of Canadian poets , the socialist-realist group , of which Layton is ‘ the chief prophet ’ ; not the first , the mythopoetic group of Frye , Reaney and Macpherson . |
| 14 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 15 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 16 | It is for this reason that any unused ‘ B ’ solution must never be returned to the original container , as it would then destabilise the contents which , in a sealed container without a vented cap , could cause the container to burst , and with a vented cap the solution would eventually become ineffective . |
| 17 | Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) . |
| 18 | A comparison of such different ballets as Enigma Variations , Fancy Free and The Rake 's Progress emphasises how important it is for young choreographers to remember that ballet is an art of the general as well as of the particular . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that deconstruction remains a fundamental threat to Marxism , and by implication to other culturalist and contextualizing approaches . |
| 20 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 21 | For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself . |
| 22 | It is for others to offer moral guidance to the newly prosperous Pharisees . |
| 23 | ‘ It is for a constituency Labour Party to welcome Mr Scargill with open arms , or any arms . ’ |
| 24 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 26 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 27 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 28 | ‘ It is for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and the environmental goals , ’ said Mr Patten emphatically . |
| 29 | It is for government to say it will not fund us adequately , not for us to go round saying it rather like a lot of sheep . |
| 30 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |