Example sentences of "[v-ing] is for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing is for the track not for the road . |
| 2 | But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality : For them it was a means to a livelihood , as pimping is for others ’ ( p. 180 ) . |
| 3 | By now , however , the biggest pressure Kylie is facing is for her to move towards live appearances and a major world tour to capitalise on the success of ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and all that has followed it . |
| 4 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 5 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 6 | In westernized hierarchically stratified societies , the form this linguistic sex-marking has commonly been interpreted as taking is for women to approximate more closely than men of similar status to the prestige norm . |
| 7 | The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 8 | Now if we work as a team and we work very sensibly and reasonably , it may wo may well be that the most sensible way of working is for the project engineer to decide who 's gon na do the site measure . |