Example sentences of "[noun] be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This just shows how hungry institutions are for commissions , ’ one banker said . |
| 2 | Parkside pit camp mugs , T-shirts and badges are for sale , and a limited edition commemorative plate has been produced . |
| 3 | About 15 posts are supervisory and management jobs and the remainder are for checkout , shelving and other staff . |
| 4 | As well as operating on behalf of industrial concerns , part of EFS ' everyday operations are for Europ-Assistance the International holiday insurance company . |
| 5 | Apart from employment , the most serious implications of the policies of constraint are for housing . |
| 6 | These teeth are for battle . |
| 7 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
| 8 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 9 | Many requests are for details of fibreboard d-i-y projects — FIDOR can supply booklets which will enable you to construct a serving trolley , make a bedhead , build a stylish fire surround , or a kitchen island unit . |
| 10 | First fruits of the BBC PO/Tortelier 's three-year contract ( also see below ) will be an all-Hindemith programme ; the contract also allows for the BBC PO to record under the baton of Sir Edward Downes ( plans are for Glière and Respighi recordings — see too our new release listings ) . |
| 11 | At a recent anti-diet rally in West Virginia , women smashed their scales and toted banners proclaiming : ‘ Scales are for fish , not women . ’ |
| 12 | The advertisers obviously wish to give the idea that their products are for blondes or light-skinned people only , or maybe that if you use their product you will suddenly be transformed into a seductive beauty with a string of young men at your fingertips . |
| 13 | Mobile mums groups are for mums with ‘ mobile ’ toddlers who need toddler-proof houses but who are maybe not ready yet for the rough and tumble of Open houses . |
| 14 | The highest salaries paid to local authority officers involved with the arts are for Directors and Assistant Directors of Museums and Gallery Services . |
| 15 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 16 | Quarrels are for lovers . ’ |
| 17 | I maintain that bilateral hearing is essential for sound location — as two eyes are for stereovision . |
| 18 | It 's where shaving 's for weddings , ties are for funerals and tea is brewed in a billy , then swung overhead to settle the leaves ( or to scare the spiders away , depending on who 's pulling your leg ) . |
| 19 | And so to war , and at first a very strange war , On either side it appeared that no one wanted to start the bombing war which in our way had been our long time plan — in fact the Trenchard theory that fighters are for defence , bombers for offence . |
| 20 | I would sum it up by saying cars are for work , not for worship . ’ |
| 21 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 22 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 23 | Typical values of the relevant parameters are for olivine and for plagioclase . |
| 24 | ‘ Words are for truth . |
| 25 | ‘ Words are for facts . |
| 26 | These books are for reference only and are not to be removed from the library . |
| 27 | Finally , by way of introduction , Ranganathan 's laws of librarianship remain valid to the study of library use : books are for use ; for every reader his book ; for every book its reader ; save the time of the user . |
| 28 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 29 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |
| 30 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |