Example sentences of "[verb] [be] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
| 2 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |
| 3 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 6 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 7 | One possibility being considered is for solar power to be used to pump downstream water back up to the main reservoir , so restoring the head of water needed to generate hydro-electric power . |
| 8 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 9 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 10 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 12 | Prices shown are for double rooms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing . |
| 15 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 16 | The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated . |
| 17 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 18 | ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses . |
| 19 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 20 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 23 | The current polarity is important in the permanent-magnet motor ; the rotor position illustrated is for positive current in winding A , a switch to positive current in winding B would produce a clockwise step , whereas negative excitation of B would give anticlockwise rotation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The lesson to be learned is for Simple Minds not to let the sheer size and conflicting visions of the 50 States overwhelm them . |
| 26 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 27 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 28 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 29 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 30 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |