Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 2 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 3 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 4 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 5 | One way out of the dilemma has been for larger Japanese companies to reduce transaction costs with outside suppliers by promising continuity in their subcontracting arrangements . |
| 6 | The equipment listed is for 26 windsurfer guests in 1989 . |
| 7 | The equipment listed is for 30 windsurf guests in 1990 , but during the year there will be some updates and replacements . |
| 8 | The equipment listed is for 50 windsurf guests in 1990 , but during the year there will be updates and replacements . |
| 9 | The only special preparation needed is for euryalid species , the thickened skin covering the arm spines must be dissolved using bleach ( sodium hypochlorite ) or KOH . |
| 10 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 11 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 12 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 13 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 14 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
| 15 | The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either . |
| 16 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 17 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 18 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 19 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 20 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 21 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 22 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 23 | Important as the victory at Stirling Bridge had been for Scottish pride , there was , after a period of despondency and subjugation , to be an even more significant battlefield above the Bannock Burn two miles south of the town . |
| 24 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 25 | Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects . |
| 26 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 27 | Prices shown are for double rooms . |
| 28 | The percentages shown are for all Cambridge University/WEA Tutorial Classes which included some arranged beyond the Eastern District , e.g. Nuneaton and Rugby . |
| 29 | No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers . |
| 30 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |