Example sentences of "[pron] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own .
2 Rola Europe Ltd claim their roofracks can be fitted to any vehicle with just 4 mountings , one of which is for cars with gutters .
3 Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying .
4 The face was hardest to tan , and this model , which was for professionals and cost £5,912 plus VAT , featured three facial tanning units , one to tan the front of the face and two others to tan the sides .
5 This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them !
6 Unlike Jesus Christ , who is for Christians the Son of God , Muhammad , who was born in AD 570 is seen by his followers as Gods messenger .
7 ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said .
8 We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that .
9 Going into a training session with a pile of separate cassettes and having to find the bit you want on each one is for emergencies only .
10 The difference is that this one is for men , see .
11 FIRST ONE IS FOR DEVELOPERS ; DEC PLANS CHEAPER , POWERFUL ALPHA PCs LATER THIS YEAR
12 One is for Flowers for the Altar , one for St. Anthony which is given to the poor who come looking for help at various times of the day and night , and the third is for Sending a Sick Child to Lourdes , the cost of which is approximately £350 .
13 One was for socks , for ‘ the single bed ’ .
14 There are complex historical reasons for this , just as there are for differences in the amount of seasoning used in cooking .
15 It would be niggling to say that where a writer has used assistants his data cease to be primary , but it would also be foolish to ignore the fact that the more people there are involved in a project , the more opportunities there are for errors to creep in .
16 There are for examples only two main ways of constructing ‘ relative ’ clauses — like phrases linked by ‘ which ’ .
17 The degree of laterilisation between different tasks was compared in order to see if there was a greater right field advantage , for example , for words than there is for trigrams .
18 We have to understand the pleasure there is for women in such fantasies .
19 First of all that the Plan Two policy there is for vehicles over five years , sixty thousand miles .
20 And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible .
21 There is no single source and no national catalogue as there is for books .
22 There is for Engels , however , an intermediary state between the State and the gens .
23 The best there is for kids like Angel . ’
24 ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors .
25 There was for boys and for girls .
26 The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment .
27 Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient .
28 Jean Parmiter reported that tickets are now available for the Reunion — Please remember they are for Members Only and Teachers are reminded that membership cards may be checked at this and future events .
29 So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men .
30 Wars are almost as disastrous for wildlife as they are for humans .
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