Example sentences of "[noun] be for they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 2 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 3 | In rather special circumstances this can result in the creation of new dislocations but the much more usual effect is for them to repel each other . |
| 4 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
| 5 | When they were born , my only thought for their future was for them to be happy and healthy . |
| 6 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 7 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 8 | The key for farmers to do business is for them to deliver assured quality ; there is then a premium at the end of the line and no need to form Continental style co-ops , the minister adds . |
| 9 | It should be remembered that generalisation about bereavement or any deep experience in life can be dangerous if carried to extremes , and if you are caring for an elderly parent of either sex who has lost his or her partner , you will have no idea of just how painful their sorrow is for them , so it will be wise simply to assume , whatever their reaction may be , that they are going through a very bad time indeed . |
| 10 | The world of nature was for them constructed on a mathematical plan , things were generated from numbers an idea to whose mystical overtones Aristotle objected . |
| 11 | Orbach ( 1978 ) , for instance , suggests that the solution to women 's eating problems is for them to develop more positive feelings about their physical , sexual , intellectual , and social selves . |
| 12 | One is for the group and the other is for them to sign and send back . |
| 13 | Divide them into two teams and the game is for them to head the balloon over the string and hope the opposing team do not succeed in returning it . |
| 14 | Saddam and George Bush have both told us that God is for them . |
| 15 | The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes . |
| 16 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 17 | The ideal love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man is for them to want to give something to each other , or to want to do something for each other . |
| 18 | that , that there are others equally we say that we women to determine what happens to their own bodies and their destiny is for them , I respect that view too but in those circumstances you do n't resolve problems by the majority whatever it happens to be determining what the minority will do . |
| 19 | Executives and professional specialists need to think through what information is for them , what data they need : first , to know what they are doing ; then , to be able to decide what they should be doing ; and finally , to appraise how well they are doing . |
| 20 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 21 | This win was for them . |
| 22 | As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him . |
| 23 | Classical Greece is for them the ‘ prime historical example of the transition to a really literate society ’ without the interference of ‘ other cultural features imported from the loan country along with the writing system . |
| 24 | The tendency is for them to hold , as a result of their negotiating role , a truce metaphor of management ‘ in the mind ’ which informs their conduct . |
| 25 | So a symbol is for them ‘ a blaze or landmark , something that connects the unknown with the known ’ . |
| 26 | They have also given the lesser players their chance to see if pro golf is for them . |
| 27 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 28 | But if motherhood is for them some sort of liberation , it is n't in the image of the " liberated lady " stereotype , Cosmo girl , sexy , single , childless and employed . |
| 29 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 30 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |