Example sentences of "[be] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I ai n't been for blooming ages . |
| 2 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 3 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 4 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 5 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 6 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |
| 7 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 8 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 9 | the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written |
| 10 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 11 | Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons . |
| 12 | Had it not been for seasonal visitors , the list of locally popular dishes would have been depressingly brief ; burned steaks , fried fish , and barbecued chicken . |
| 13 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 14 | If both genes are for wild-type eyes , or one is for wild-type and one for pearl eye , the beetle has wild-type ( black ) eyes . |
| 15 | If picture-books are for young children , then what is one to make of , for example , Charles Keeping 's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs ' Fungus the bogeyman ? |
| 16 | The points of Figure 7.7b are for successive days , and it appears that the bird adjusted its territory size to maximize its rate of weight gain . |
| 17 | The seasonal charts are for late evenings , with the Sun far enough below the horizon for the sky to be dark . |
| 18 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
| 19 | Several of the offers are for individual homes , while some companies are interested in all four . |
| 20 | Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community |
| 21 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 22 | However , although most of my patterns are for single-bed machines , I am becoming more and more interested again in playing with double jacquard . |
| 23 | These are for illustrative purposes only and can not be guaranteed by Midland Life . |
| 24 | of enrolments are for vocational courses and 40 per cent . |
| 25 | Many claims are for small amounts which are costly to administer . |
| 26 | Now they are for small children to celebrate occasionally . |
| 27 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |
| 28 | The problem generally classified as ‘ shirking ’ also extends to incompetence , since if the shareholders are for practical purposes unable to replace management the company may suffer from inept leadership quite separately from questions of managerial diligence . |
| 29 | Sentiment and nostalgia are for pleasant memories . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) All of the roles are for male characters male sopranos never portray women . |