Example sentences of "[noun] are for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the projects are for building new homes but modernisation and refurbishments are included . |
| 2 | Riggers are for letting , lining out and landscape applications . |
| 3 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 4 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 5 | That in lower income groups , not because you could n't afford to heat the bedrooms , but there 's a definite idea that bedrooms are for sleeping in , rather than living in . |
| 6 | However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context . |
| 7 | The owner will have spent time finding out about his territory ; where the best sites are for hiding , where the best food is to be found . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 9 | Some of these functions are for moving , adding and deleting points from your shape , whilst others are concerned with manipulating the entire shape . |
| 10 | For the purposes of the tape I think er we ought to explain that our management meetings are always run on very serious lines with no , no jokes allowed , er first of all I think we should just place on the record that this meeting is being taped everybody recognises that , and the purposes are for to analyse everybody 's linguistic ability and later on Tracy 's going to recite her piece her presentation for the purpose of the tape . |
| 11 | The remaining rear sockets are for connecting a volume pedal , headphones ( mini jack ) , stereo outputs and guitar input . |
| 12 | Important as these two above opportunity structures are for facilitating corporate crime , the greatest opportunity lies in their ability to prevent their actions from becoming subject to criminal sanctions in the first place . |
| 13 | Erm how suitable would you say the flats are for bringing up children ? |
| 14 | ‘ Life is for living and , for God 's sake , tables are for putting mugs down on . ’ |
| 15 | Dick and the spacecraft are for exploring this universe . |
| 16 | Miss Ross said : ‘ I am not sure just what the procedures are for getting hold of a gun . |
| 17 | The remaining six controls are for setting parameter values , effect variations or turning the effect on/off , depending on which mode the A2 is set to . |
| 18 | This comes in the wake of a Labour Party survey showing fundholders nationally making profits as high as £100,000 and being given four times the amount non-fundholders are for spending on computers . |
| 19 | The swing tickets are for pricing your garments and also for giving washing instructions and fibre content . |
| 20 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 21 | However , the seminars are for teaching and there is no aim to make a profit — not many events in the Uk are like that . |
| 22 | Big chested where their lungs are for running . |
| 23 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 24 | All these crops are for feeding the farm stock , the swedes often being grazed in situ during the winter . |
| 25 | But the other ones are for running ? |
| 26 | But unions are for representing people properly , responsibly , not for using as some vehicle for your own political obsessions . |
| 27 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Such evenings are for cementing business relationships rather than for discussing specific aspects of business . |