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

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1 The Engineering Council also operates the Technology Enhancement Programme which is for 14–19 year olds and aims to increase capability in technology , mathematics and science , developing skills that are matched to the needs of industry .
2 We have to understand the pleasure there is for women in such fantasies .
3 WHAT a tragedy it is for tennis that Dan Maskell ( right ) has gone .
4 With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise .
5 Work in progress which is for a specific contract or customer order would not require provisions unless circumstances so indicated .
6 The definition of non-equity shares is widely drawn , so that any right to a dividend or to a redemption payment which is for a limited amount will have the effect that the shares will be considered non-equity shares , irrespective of the other rights they may enjoy .
7 I ask Rachel what kind of work there is for a woman alone with two kids .
8 For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds …
9 I would like to emphasise how valuable an exercise it is for students and teachers to attempt to analyse some recorded speech for themselves .
10 You do n't know Stella , what er a delight it is for us to have you .
11 A is central heating , C is car parking , D is street car parking , E is special diets catered for , F , tea and coffee making facility , G is television in bedrooms at no extra charge I is for answering and J K , I 've , I 'm , just to go all through this , disabled facilities , L separate M bedrooms available with private telephones in , it 's N , number of bedrooms available with private bathroom and toilet or shower and toilet .
12 Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying .
13 The greater the contribution of context in the sense of shared knowledge and experience the less need there is for grammar to augment the association of words .
14 The more categories that are used , of course , the less room there is for category error .
15 For if , as I suggested , the enormous vitality of the language of Ulysses can , among other things , make us smile and even laugh out loud , that fact alone will underscore how little room there is for laughter in the earlier texts .
16 So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only .
17 Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner .
18 What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars .
19 Or as Engels meditated , ‘ Irish history shows one what a misfortune it is for a nation to have subjugated another nation .
20 The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs .
21 Teachers will have to judge whether computer schemes meet the needs of children , but also what scope there is for teacher initiative , knowledge and intuition once the scheme is in operation .
22 But they also have certain weaknesses , for the more exact one tries to become about functions , the more slippery they become , and the more scope there is for variation and disagreement .
23 And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible .
24 Yet the more heavily regulated the market is , and the greater the restrictions on the property rights given to suppliers , the less scope there is for the benefits of competition to emerge at all .
25 The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds .
26 Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation .
27 The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson .
28 The evidence produced by the major enquiries which took place between 1816 and the 1840s has been variously treated by historians , but what little evidence there is for the earlier mills seems uniformly bleak .
29 What utter and unbelievable nonsense it is for the Labour Group to claim that the Conservative Group have sought to exploit the needs of people with disabilities in order to gain political advantage .
30 John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it .
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