Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] is for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 2 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |
| 3 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 4 | The right of free speech is one which it is for the public interest that individuals should possess , and , indeed , that they should exercise without impediment , so long as no wrongful act is done . |
| 5 | One-in one-out is for the supermarkets , not the community 's cultural and intellectual repository ! |
| 6 | If a message has to be taken , be certain to record the date , time of message , who it is for , and who it is from , and always repeat the message back to the caller to ensure that the details are correct . |
| 7 | And , of course , who it is for and where it is to be sent back to — facts which often seem to be forgotten . |
| 8 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 9 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
| 10 | It 's er It it is for that . |
| 11 | WHAT THERE IS FOR CLASSROOM USE |
| 12 | More people , could get benefit out of the five hundred , then there what there is for four . |
| 13 | In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ? |
| 14 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 15 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 16 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 17 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 18 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 19 | It gives criticism , and critical theory , no way of knowing what it is for : no way , that is , — of arguing for one kind of production against another , or of valuing some forms over others . |
| 20 | There is no consensus about what education should be , what it is for , either in schools or places of higher education . |
| 21 | So how are we to reach any agreement now , at the end of the 1980s , on the function of education , what it is for , what needs it must meet ? |
| 22 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 23 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 24 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 25 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 26 | I asked her if her work at college had forced or stimulated her to think about school in general , and what it is for . |
| 27 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 28 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
| 29 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 30 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |