Example sentences of "[pron] is for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The first one is for producing diatonic sus4 type chords and the formula is ‘ substitute 3 for 4 ’ , so to build these chords on every scale degree all you do is delete the thirds from each triad and add in its place the note that is a diatonic fourth ( four letter names inclusive of the root note ) above the root of the chord . |
| 3 | The more effort that has to be put into these component skills , the less processing space there is for monitoring the procedure — i.e. , taking the message as a cognitive object and scrutinizing it for possible inconsistencies . |
| 4 | It is For Catching Wild Colts and Vicious Horses on Aney Feild or Common ( For a long distance ) |
| 5 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 6 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |
| 7 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 9 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 10 | We have the report and it is for noting . |
| 11 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 12 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 13 | It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’ |
| 14 | There is not a case , however , for spreading central funding between universities more evenly ; rather it is for judging all UK universities more broadly on the excellence of both their science and their technology bases . |
| 15 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |