Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke said the working plans were for about five units with about 40 places each . |
| 2 | We need an urgent review , maybe less papers but more information on rights lost and what Labour policies are for the future . |
| 3 | The private schools are for the élite , mostly in urban areas . |
| 4 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 5 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 6 | As my hon. Friend knows , fiscal matters are for our right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 7 | Spencer has always longed to have a Spitfire and one day Mike Searle , presumably having recovered from the shock of the Jungmann episode ( see the September issue , page 25 ) , pointed out an advertisement in which some Spitfires were for sale at Strathallan in Scotland . |
| 8 | Streamline English Directions is for upper intermediate students , such as those approaching or at the level of Cambridge First Certificate . |
| 9 | Receiver is attached to battery with servo tape — rubber bands are for added security . |
| 10 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 11 | Among the longterm users , the majority of the 1989–90 applications were for H 2 -receptor blockers ( 88% ) . |
| 12 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 13 | The three Established Church representatives set themselves against ; the other four who were Free Churchmen were for it . |
| 14 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 15 | Some changes are for the worst , however . |
| 16 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 17 | And , in our English language we actually make this mistake when we talk about birthdays French , in some ways are for more sensible with language , and you only ever have one birthday , the rest of them are anniversaries of your birthday . |
| 18 | Some recipes are for dinner parties , others for day-to-day . |
| 19 | An alternative method for dealing with vector elements of different lengths is for an increment value of one always to be used , but for the modifier field to be suitably manipulated when an element is accessed . |
| 20 | Daum now wants UEFA to accept that the rules regarding foreign players are for everyone else — but not for him because he had yet another excusable lapse of memory . |
| 21 | The research assesses how difficult these different devices are for children to use and how this changes with age , relating performance to the development of the child 's spatial awareness . |
| 22 | As most interbank deposits are for less than one year , few banks will grant such a loan with a term of more than one year . |
| 23 | Some votes are for capital items , such as expenditure on new buildings , while others are for revenue items , such as staff salaries . |
| 24 | Typically , such contracts were for 15 years . |
| 25 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 26 | It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only . |
| 27 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that the main , if not only purpose of these civil defences was for protection . |
| 29 | The highest success rate obtained for items on the relationship between metric and Imperial units was for Example 48 . |
| 30 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |