Example sentences of "[pron] is for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I once spent a whole rehearsal on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann , which is for me one of the most tragic things in opera .
2 To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely .
3 However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest .
4 However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest .
5 Third , her dispute with ‘ interpretation ’ , which is for her also a dispute with any kind of critical theory , is due to the assumptions of cultural differentiation built into the former and latter .
6 If your complaint can not be resolved locally , your representative will ask you to complete a report form , the original of which is for you and a copy will be forwarded to our Head Office .
7 This is my body , which is for you , do this as a memorial of me …
8 A sense which can work against his best interests — for I need not repeat how much I respect Amaryllis , how entirely delightful and suitable I find her and how wonderfully rare she is for me who has — as man to man I can tell you what you must guess — several times been urged to marry .
9 ‘ She 's very clever , ’ William said at once , ‘ making lovely shoes she is for them actresses in the theatre . ’
10 I know her now and she is for my fool 's turn that will be caught by her .
11 The blue one is for yourself .
12 Any , hang on Anth oh the green one is for what I can see on the picture , I think the green one is Sleepy
13 This one is for me .
14 Fallen like Lucifer ; fallen ( this one is for you , Stu ) like the stock market in 1929 .
15 Now at the bottom of your sheet , shh , shh , I , there are two boxes , one is for me to scribble in , the other one is for you to write neatly in , I 'm the only one here who 's allowed to scribble .
16 Buttressing these are the scarcity of good job opportunities on the internal labour market and the intense competition that there is for them ( Koshiro , 1981 ) .
17 We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community .
18 But right now , I 'm going to do the most important thing that there is for me to do .
19 The more time and energy you give to developing residencies in hospitals and working with other people the less time there is for your own work .
20 … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord .
21 Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a
22 Come along , we 'll go and find the very nicest apple there is for you . ’
23 It can do all there is for it to do , which is to discover regularities among our God-given ideas , and to systematize these in the most useful way .
24 It seems to be a facet of nature that the lower a creature is on the scale of consciousness , the less there is for it to learn , and the more slavishly bound it is to its instincts .
25 This lets you monitor the demand that there is for it and will provide a sound basis for decisions about the possible expansion of your video facilities in the future .
26 We have no machinery , no animals to help us , not even a donkey : we need all the land there is for ourselves .
27 The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers …
28 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 ’ .
29 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 ’ .
30 He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it .
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