Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [is] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think about it , Aurora — decide whether your desire to hang on to the club really is for his sake — or yours . ’ |
| 2 | Anyone who wishes to contribute must catch the Chairman 's eye and the usual practice then is for the Chairman to call on the persons in the order in which he has seen them . |
| 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 | " Every question asked requires historical information to be applied : the basic need here is for the candidate to select information which is relevant and to organise it in such a way that it is directed towards answering the specific question asked . " |
| 5 | And our first request tonight is for Mr. and Mrs. Levitt , whose son is serving overseas in the Air Force . |
| 6 | Unable to develop an idea of filmmaking that was both British and international , they concentrated their energies on defining their position on either side of that spectrum , and lost any sense of what cinema really is for . |
| 7 | Peres pledged to lead Labour in militant opposition to the ruling Likud of Itzhak Shamir , saying : " The struggle now is for a credible peace process . " |
| 8 | Jazz was popular in all circles during my childhood — the demand now is for more structured music or the cold beat of the synthesizer — but through the sixties the music of Black Africa in distress appealed to softened hearts . |
| 9 | ‘ A priority now is for us to learn how to live in a democratic society . |
| 10 | All three send out very detailed information which should help you to decide whether open learning really is for you . |
| 11 | The only means of advance now is for those able to buy the council house in which they live . |
| 12 | The example here is for a self-employed professional who charges for time spent on a number of projects and at a variety of rates . |
| 13 | Where in the past this tended to be a self-contained exercise — and perhaps more obviously artificial because of it — the pattern nowadays is for the group treasury function to be moved offshore en bloc . |
| 14 | I am under no illusion about how difficult my presence here is for you . ’ |
| 15 | The trend now is for UK-based companies to have their European subsidiaries release key personnel for intensive training in English in the UK to help improve their all-round performance once they return home . |
| 16 | The growing trend now is for more and more European golfers , and especially the heavyweights , to concentrate on playing the US circuit . |
| 17 | Laity participate mainly through traditional organizations and the call now is for a new strategy based on small Christian communities . |
| 18 | The general approach now is for the courts to require that a minister produce reasonable grounds for his action , even where the jurisdictional fact is subjectively framed . |
| 19 | The trend today is for more paid workers to be employed in the CAB alongside volunteers with the result that the need to inculcate professional attitudes among volunteers has become more apparent . |
| 20 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 21 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The commonest situation here is for two males to share two females . |
| 24 | They 're not the whole scheme though is for Third World countries is n't it ? |
| 25 | When it comes to such matters as the protection of creditors and third parties dealing with a company , the obvious way forward is for the Community to lay down in its Directives detailed rules which are to be given similar effect under national law in all member states . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The way forward is for the Government to admit that the guarantee is not being delivered and that it is being overwhelmed by the recession . |
| 28 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 29 | It 's an issue we need to monitor but the best way forward is for us to do that under the labour movement . |
| 30 | The concordance between Is for some attribute ( e.g. IQ ) may be higher than that between Ns so that we can infer a genetic effect . |