Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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1 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
2 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
3 | Here a pair of 1850 card tables are for sale at up to Pounds 10,000 and a Louis XVI-style suite , £5,000 . |
4 | Tobacco accounts for ‘ little more than 1% of the $50bn ( £28.9bn. ) spent on advertising in the EC in 1990 ’ ( Financial Times , 20.5.91 ) and advertising industry forecasts are for a strong rise in total advertising expenditure throughout the EC , so that the removal of tobacco advertising can be absorbed easily . |
5 | Orbach ( 1978 ) , for instance , suggests that the solution to women 's eating problems is for them to develop more positive feelings about their physical , sexual , intellectual , and social selves . |
6 | In all 79% ( 23949 of 30253 ) of general practitioner referrals were for one of the seven examinations covered in the guideline booklet ( chest , skull , spine , abdomen , barium investigation , excretion urography , and limbs and joints ) . |
7 | fewer than half the drivers questioned gave the correct answers of 70mph and 60mph when asked what the UK speed limits are for dual and single carriageway roads . |
8 | Particular investment decisions are for the industry to make , and they will decide the level of opencast output they wish to aim for . |
9 | Erm , and at the moment we are carrying out some studies which er are nearing completion , to decided exactly what the R A F's future requirements are for tactical reconnaissance . |
10 | Another use of ivory initiated by Late Pleistocene hunting bands was for figurines . |
11 | The main requirements of the Management Regulations are for employers to : |
12 | That was hard enough when most transfer prices were for tangible goods , points out Gary Hufbauer , of the Institute for International Economics , in a recent book * . |
13 | The winter records were for 26 December 1959 at Pett Level , 2 January 1965 at the Crumbles , 3 January 1971 at Eastbourne , and 16 February 1975 at Amberley Wildbrooks , found dead . |
14 | A practical consideration when testing vehicle parts is for the defendant to be asked to apply the part such as brakes himself . |
15 | The site visits are for Friends members only . |
16 | Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the last thing that business needs is for business rates to be brought back under the control of uncapped , loony Labour authorities who will send rates sky rocketing , as they did during the early 1980s ? |
17 | The Red Cross/Daily Mirror Care in Crisis Awards are for the people who put others before themselves . |
18 | When the syllabus was referred to , it was the content objectives to which everyone referred ; the process objectives were for the most part ignored . |
19 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
20 | People sensed that the chilling emergency announcements on shop tannoys were for real . |
21 | As part of the social security provision in Britain , the two largest cash benefits are for pension and SB payments . |
22 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
23 | Erm I 've got a Mercury account at home and I 've got it set up so that after the Mercury number you type in a user code , and one of my user codes is for the business . |
24 | Important as these two above opportunity structures are for facilitating corporate crime , the greatest opportunity lies in their ability to prevent their actions from becoming subject to criminal sanctions in the first place . |
25 | DAY CENTRES ARE FOR EVERYONE |
26 | I just wanted to know what the ticket arrangements are for the Liverpool game at Anfield later in September . |
27 | The escort girls are for the rich man who does not want the bother of leaving his hotel-room if the need gets too strong . ’ |
28 | Ensure that you know where the resuscitation equipment is kept , what the emergency phone numbers are for fire and cardiac arrest and learn to use the oxygen and suction equipment . |
29 | So the horizon of credit options is for most people circumscribed simply by their limited awareness of what 's on the market for them . |
30 | Note : sandstone grades are for on-sight ascents using rope knots for the first time . |