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

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1 In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them .
2 When the Fates and the mood are for it no entity on earth can move with greater elephantine pondorosity than official Washington .
3 One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention .
4 The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 .
5 His family are for him living proof of them .
6 ‘ The argument against a one-party state is shared by many intellectuals , including those in the party and who work for the state , but those in power are for it .
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