Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | How do we know which is for tea and which is n't ? |
| 3 | how do you know it 's thingy ? , how do you know it 's for the kids in Norway ? |
| 4 | Say it 's for the snapper . ’ |
| 5 | I say it 's for young fellows like yourself and myself , ’ Fonsie said . |
| 6 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 7 | And then if he asks you what you 're doing just say it 's for like , you know , a project we 're supposed to be doing . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 9 | Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 13 | He says it 's for tourists and people who 've read the novels who want to refresh their thoughts . |
| 14 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
| 15 | She says it 's for ducks . |
| 16 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 17 | We hope it 's for the best , ’ said Mr Gennady Gerasimov , the chief spokesman , in pithy words which encapsulate the bold leap towards the Common European Home that Mr Egon Krenz , with Moscow 's backing , has made . |
| 18 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 19 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 20 | One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I suspect she 's for the chop . |
| 23 | What do most people believe it is for , what do their dreams and other experiences during sleep signify , and what may happen to them if sleep is disturbed or prevented ? |
| 24 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 25 | Stirring potential buyers to get out and see what is for sale is a key element of successful salesmanship . |
| 26 | Oh , well , come on ; let's go down and see what 's for dinner . |
| 27 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
| 28 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 29 | When you see the blood you know it 's for real . |
| 30 | And that 's really because it 's it 's erm you know it 's for people under the age of of sixty . |