Example sentences of "[adv] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The prices shown below are for yarns only . ) |
| 2 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 3 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 4 | Roosevelt might nevertheless have got his way in 1943 , had it not been for developments inside France . |
| 5 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 6 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 7 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 8 | ‘ Not till the next time you come , anyway , and that might not be for ages . ’ |
| 9 | Such people have been dubbed ‘ carbohydrate cravers ’ by researchers , but many now think that the primary craving may not be for carbohydrates but for fats . |
| 10 | Tonight was for chandeliers and the champagne genie who makes your brightest dreams come true . |
| 11 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 12 | Probably are for daddies as well . |
| 13 | Well they 're probably are for mummies . |
| 14 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 15 | Financial accounting reverts to what it traditionally was for businesses : producing verifiable statements of the organization 's stewardship . |
| 16 | The appeal now is for names , service numbers , squadrons or other units , country in which taken prisoner , countries in which held , and country of release . |
| 17 | Advertisements here are for jobs in personnel and training , selling and management , as well as technical and professional . |
| 18 | The most common nowadays are for reservoirs , but major bridges and tunnels also usually need Private Acts . |
| 19 | She said no she said we have n't been for ages . |
| 20 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 21 | Kathy made two cups of tea and said firmly , ‘ You are n't yourself , Clare , and you have n't been for months . ’ |
| 22 | But we have n't been for months . |
| 23 | There was no one in the staff sitting room , but then , there had n't been for years . |
| 24 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 25 | The most urgent need will invariably be for sources of long-term credit to finance major new investments , to maintain debt-to-equity ratios consistent with minimal capital costs and to cushion the inevitable destruction of capital that flows from basic innovations in organizational practice . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , but that wo n't be for years yet ! ’ |
| 27 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 28 | It is curious nevertheless how poor the primary sources sometimes are for debates at BAAS meetings : the famous clash between Wilberforce and Huxley in 1860 at Oxford , in the new museum there , has scarcely more contemporary accounts than that between St George and the dragon , so that it is impossible to know exactly what happened . |
| 29 | ‘ The only reason for the peephole being there is for employees of the hotel to watch people undressing , showering or involved in sexual intercourse , ’ said lawyer Jerry Summer . |
| 30 | The logical way forward is for purchasers to agree the number of patients they will pay for and for the region to ensure that this provision is adequate . |