Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That money is for my future and for the future of my little girl ! ’ |
| 2 | The largest uptake is for the subjects in the Final section , which are common to the Pre-Associateship Route . |
| 3 | The working budget is for expenses you incur in carrying out your programme for the client . |
| 4 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 5 | That election is for the House of Commons and the House of Commons alone . |
| 6 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 7 | Since normal practice is for a member to be issued with paid-up shares , the member 's liability is limited to the extent that the shares which he or she has in the company are rendered valueless . |
| 8 | To avoid such problems , where a consent is needed , the normal practice is for the sale agreement to provide that the vendor will hold the benefit of such contract on trust for the purchaser and pay any sums which the vendor receives after completion to the purchaser immediately upon receipt ( see clause 8.2(a) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The usual practice is for casks to be rolled into deep , cool cellars . |
| 11 | The TBM 700 's purchase price includes two type ratings , and the usual practice is for the owner-pilot to bring a professional flier with him to take the course . |
| 12 | If so , the meeting can proceed ; otherwise , the usual practice is for the meeting to wait a maximum of 15 to 30 minutes for a quorum to assemble . |
| 13 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 14 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 15 | This case is for information only . |
| 16 | Yet another course is for assets of Target 's trade to be transferred to Newco in return for cash left outstanding on non-interest-bearing inter-company loan account . |
| 17 | sort of thinking , Ah this prayer is for the children , I 'll pray for the wonderful world that God 's created . |
| 18 | The prayer this afternoon is for doctors and hospitals . |
| 19 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 20 | A variation on this technique is for the Bank to announce a Minimum Lending Rate which , for a short period ahead , it will apply in any lending to the discount houses . |
| 21 | If it seems likely that a particular march will encounter a large and aggressively hostile opposition , the proper course is for the police to organise in such a way as to protect the marchers against the opposition . |
| 22 | The next necessary act in this play is for the two to reassure each other of their discretion ; from the monk : And from the wife : Agreement on the sexual exchange is thus sealed : They can then indulge themselves in filling out the details of their play — and anticipating the events of the act to come — at a certain amount of leisure . |
| 23 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 24 | This award is for supercomputing time , rather than money ( indirect value around 12,000 Pounds ) |
| 25 | This course is for women only . |
| 26 | What the result of this equation is for democracy is not always easy to see . |
| 27 | A further recommendation is for the setting up of an independent body of journalists that would abide by an agreed code of conduct . |
| 28 | Another alternative is for the smaller firm to tap into the growth of the older population — those over 55 — arising from early retirement and redundancy policies of large firms in recent years and other factors . |
| 29 | normal commercial practice is for a company secretary to receive a company car . |
| 30 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |