Example sentences of "what is for " in BNC.

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1 This brings the time of resuming sexual relations right up to what is for most women the most fertile time of the month .
2 Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations .
3 The only building of note is All Saints ' church , standing on what is for Holderness an eminence .
4 This is not the way to maintain it in what is for many accountants a difficult transitional period .
5 What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country .
6 Under such circumstances , the influence of the father would , of course , be absent and so , therefore , would what is for most white youths the main stimulus behind sporting involvement .
7 Homo sapiens has chosen to venture into what is for him an unnatural environment and he does so at his peril .
8 The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project .
9 Stirring potential buyers to get out and see what is for sale is a key element of successful salesmanship .
10 I am attempting to make explicit what is for the participants a shared and implicit agreement on the structure within which the practice is taking place .
11 They should be disassociated from what is for sale — domestic drudgery . ’
12 What is for supper ? ’
13 ( c ) They may change form because they reflect what is for the language being considered , a regularly observed semantic distinction .
14 Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet .
15 It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators .
16 Sale procedure and contacts — identify what is for sale !
17 This section should summarise the critical factors as to type of business , what is for sale , reasons for sale , financial position and investment considerations and opportunities .
18 They " must set the standards of what is acceptable , of what is for the public good in the age in which we live " .
19 What is for sure on the basis of a judgment made in nineteen sixty-eight when my Noble friend Lord Callaghan of Cardiff er was Home Secretary , it was made quite clear that no Minister of the Crown can tell a Chief Constable , can tell him he must or mee no or must not keep observation on this place or that .
20 But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait .
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