Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that one was for ten years |
| 2 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 3 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 4 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 5 | It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC . |
| 6 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 7 | Horses learn new things easily when they are young ; it is actually easier for them to learn new things than it is for older horses . |
| 8 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 9 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 10 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 11 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 12 | I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to . |
| 13 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 14 | It would seem , however , that the occasional patients with such sensitivities ( as in our patient with salicylate sensitivity ) come to light clinically because of chronic persistent disease activity rather than the more usual relapsing and remitting disease and it is for these patients that the elimination diets may be more appropriate . |
| 15 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 16 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 17 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 18 | They would charge £5000 ( ! ) and , because it is for educational purposes , would provide no restriction on sales and extend copyright for a period of 5 years ( 21/6 ) . |
| 19 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |
| 20 | As an appendix to the Vespers , Monteverdi added two versions of what is essentially the same Magnificat , though one is for six voices and organ only , the other for seven voices and a considerable orchestra . |
| 21 | There are many other activities and sports that are just as suitable for older women as they are for younger ones : golf , badminton , skiing ( cross country or downhill ) , croquet , table tennis , bowling , rambling , sailing , archery — anything that is , and continues to be , enjoyable . |
| 22 | In this test the sample is subjected to a periodic load ( or displacement ) , and a complex modulus is found which , for linear viscoelasticity , relates the stress — to the strain , these no longer being in phase with each other as they are for elastic materials . |
| 23 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 24 | Each one should be cleaned , inside and out — it is just as effective for those hard-to-reach molars as it is for front teeth . |
| 25 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 26 | This discovery did not prove to be particularly useful because the metabolite is a mycotoxin and mildly carcinogenic , illustrating that toxicological testing is just as important for natural products as it is for synthetic chemicals . |
| 27 | For those theses who have only one recorded citation , the citation period is zero , as it is for those theses whose citations all fall within a single year . |
| 28 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |