Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |
| 2 | The great majority of requests were for ‘ ordinary ’ — that is , neither early nor rare — printed books and serials from the stack areas of the Main Building . |
| 3 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 4 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
| 5 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 6 | However , this approach towards electronics is not without its critics ( Moore and Booth , 1986 ) : few jobs have been created for the long-term unemployed ; a relatively small proportion of posts are for managerial and technical positions ; and the indigenous sector remains small , as do total exports and research and development capacities . |
| 7 | Not all of these charges may be taken as evidence of ‘ litigiousness ’ , for one-quarter to one-third of prosecutions were for regulatory offences , such as gambling and tax evasion , which were normally prosecuted by the police or other government agencies . |
| 8 | All that is needed to disrupt this state of affairs is for a ‘ seed ’ to be planted . |
| 9 | For example , Datir ( 1978 : 212 ) found that , in the state of Maharastra , over two-thirds of all admissions of convicts to prisons were of people serving one month or less ; and a third of admissions were for ticketless travel on the railway , usually through inability to pay fines . |
| 10 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
| 11 | The resulting set of equations is For finite y , the above system has the steady-state solution Examination of this solution reveals that it is stable if y exceeds a certain minimum value , Y , sufficient to quench the spontaneous lasing . |
| 12 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 13 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 14 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |
| 15 | The analysis showed that 40.9 per cent of claims were for hepatitis B. |
| 16 | The usual sequence of events is for the otter to dive and then surface clutching both a mollusc and a rock . |
| 17 | The usual order of events is for the employer to open the proceedings by making a short opening address . |
| 18 | of enrolments are for vocational courses and 40 per cent . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 20 | The most frequent plea we hear from readers is for a no-fuss dinner-party menu . |
| 21 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 22 | The information in italics is for your guidance only . |
| 23 | Erm in general people desire approval more often than they do n't , so the general tendency in conversations is for people to converge to each other in many situations . |
| 24 | The proportion of points permitted to your army for monsters is for monsters without riders . |
| 25 | The proportion of your army 's points permitted for monsters is for monsters without riders , and this is quite separate . |
| 26 | The proportion of points permitted for monsters is for monsters without riders . |
| 27 | Secondly , does he agree that the quickest way to ensure longer waiting lists , unreasonable behaviour and hospitals again being run by unions rather than by consultants is for power to be given to the Labour party ? |