Example sentences of "[adj] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were new , some were old ; some were for men , some for women ; some had baskets , some did not . |
| 2 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 3 | The simplest way around this is for artists to get their assistants to sign over the reproduction rights before work begins . |
| 4 | lovely shape This is for orchids and this is the the fern that comes with them , which is quite useful . |
| 5 | This is for teachers to come in the evenings after school and erm work with computers and perhaps more important is discuss with each other how they 're using computers or whatever in , in their classes . |
| 6 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 7 | This is for GCSEs is n't it ? |
| 8 | because this is , this is mine , mine in my own na , this is my own building society , this is for children to do |
| 9 | I look to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook when I say that I am not clear about the precise intention that lies behind the phrase in new clause 2 , which refers to ’ satisfactory access to advice and representation ’ — this is for applicants — ’ from advisers and representatives of their choice ’ . |
| 10 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |
| 11 | The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy . |
| 12 | This was for tomatoes I think the quota of tomatoes . |
| 13 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 14 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 15 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 16 | ‘ Usually , of course , these are for clients , ’ he said , ‘ but in this case , if you do n't mind , ’ and he blew his nose again , and sighed . |
| 17 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |
| 18 | Under the new system , the Assembly would be increased to 108 deputies ; of the nine new seats for Moslems , three were for Shias and two each for Sunnis , Alawis and Druses . |
| 19 | Yearnings are as individual as yearners themselves , but nearly all are for foods which are high in sugar , salt or fat . |
| 20 | She says they bought them all from Birmingham — many are for weddings and rituals . |
| 21 | Despite a relatively shortterm median follow up ( 5.7 years ) only three of 10 patients ( 30% ) with definite Crohn 's colitis have so far had their pouch excised , admittedly all were for fistulas , while the remaining seven have satisfactory function despite episodes of recurrent pouchitis in three . |
| 22 | Categories are as the last competition i.e. HUMAN PORTRAITURE , PICTORIAL , LANDSCAPES , FLORA AND FAUNA , ARCHITECTURE/BUILDINGS/RECORD AND ANY PRINT ( the latter is for exhibitors not having previously won a prize ) . |
| 23 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 24 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 25 | You 've been reading B one 's for weeks have n't you ? |
| 26 | Feynman 's approach gives a particularly simple way of understanding how that neat classical picture will nevertheless emerge as a limiting case for " large " systems , that is for systems whose action is very big on the scale set by h . |
| 27 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 28 | That 's for imbeciles like Amelia Dorf . |
| 29 | Yeah , ah , I like the new pink ones , and that 's for boys |
| 30 | You know that 's for idiots . |