Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would not the best course of action be for employers to dismiss anyone who has addictive disease ? |
| 2 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 3 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 4 | ‘ This part of the club is for members only , he said in a voice of strangulated distaste . |
| 5 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 6 | The usual practice is for casks to be rolled into deep , cool cellars . |
| 7 | During summer ( May to September ) fishing is for flounders , plaice and eels , while between October and the end of January there can be outstanding sport with whiting and codling . |
| 8 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |
| 9 | ( c ) Clauses defining the consequences of breach A further alternative is for clauses to define the rights available to the innocent party in the event of breach of contract . |
| 10 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 11 | This department was for years managed by John Aldersley @ £6 : 0s. : 0d. per month and Daniel Bowden at £5 : 0s. : 0d . |
| 12 | But it was a very distinctive and pervasive tone : the Hollywood casting couch was for starlets in the States and stud boys in London . |
| 13 | Prior to the Children Act 1989 coming into operation on 14 October 1991 , the practice was for justices to announce their decision in the most simple terms , saying that they made a care order or a custody order , as the case might be . |
| 14 | Abstract 3's intention was for companies to include , in their calculation of a gain or loss on disposal of a business , any goodwill previously written off against reserves . |
| 15 | The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) . |
| 16 | Mr Harty added he had seen signs saying fishing was for members only but had not taken any notice of them . |
| 17 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 18 | GORDON Gekko 's assertion in the film Wall Street that ‘ Lunch is for wimps , ’ seemed to sum up the money-mad Eighties . |
| 19 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 20 | The plan is for publishers to donate their unsold magazines , presumably gaining a tax benefit in the process , and these will then be shipped overseas . |
| 21 | But the school told us Dean Hall is for children with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 22 | Therefore , the practice with the private sector is for employers and employees to make contributions to a fund at a rate which , combined with judicious management of the fund , should be sufficient to meet obligations to current employees at some point in the future . |
| 23 | Whether your requirement is for grams , kilos , tons or thousands of tons , they have a large range of facilities and technologies to meet your needs . |
| 24 | ‘ We are very aware what a frightening experience the driving test is for learners , ’ says Wilf Rostron , the supervising examiner in Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | As a stage actor his greatness was for Heroes : as a screen actor too — Alexander , Antony , Becket , Trotsky : or Anti-heroes — George in Who 's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ? , |
| 26 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 27 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 28 | The object of this exercise was for advisers to gain a view of the school from the eyes of a pupil — to experience the school day as a particular pupil would . |
| 29 | spoke Swahili , English language broadcasting was for non-Tanzanians . |
| 30 | Ms Haddad reveals , inter alia , that Mr Nolte 's preferred erotic fantasy was for poses plastique in which she played a ‘ schoolgirl ’ and he a ‘ teacher ’ . |