Example sentences of "[prep] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the word ‘ scientist ’ was being coined in the 1830s to express a new feeling of community , specialized societies and journals were coming into being for astronomers , entomologists , chemists and other groups . |
| 2 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 3 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 4 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 5 | if it 's any consolation the new course is reckoned to be for experts only … ask Sandy Lyle … |
| 6 | The first to be for Members only and to be held on 8th . |
| 7 | Many of the appropriate works are likely to be for users who require a general introduction to a subject — even though , in some cases , the same user 's formal education may be highly advanced in another field . |
| 8 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 9 | Thinking about these questions produces the conclusions that are the starting point for Hughes 's paper : that the philosopher 's child invariably turns out to be male and that autonomy seems to be for men only . |
| 10 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 11 | well you should 've taken those Migrolifs because there supposed to be for migraines |
| 12 | Its use is intended to be for characters that walk , where you do n't want to have a Michael Jackson Moonwalk effect ( although that 's a doddle to do — you just move an actor backwards while it 's animated to walk forwards ) . |
| 13 | If local authorities have not been able to find sites how much more difficult is it going to be for gipsies themselves ? ’ he said . |
| 14 | Newmarket is the place to be for racegoers tomorrow , where the Tote Cesarewitch and the Dubai Champion Stakes worth a combined total of two hundred and twenty five thousand pounds are being run . |
| 15 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 16 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |
| 17 | Over the last fourteen years forty two million pounds and if they go on the way their going on and the way they 're talking it 's all gon na be for nicks nowt . |