Example sentences of "[prep] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the word ‘ scientist ’ was being coined in the 1830s to express a new feeling of community , specialized societies and journals were coming into being for astronomers , entomologists , chemists and other groups . |
| 2 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 3 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 4 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 5 | if it 's any consolation the new course is reckoned to be for experts only … ask Sandy Lyle … |
| 6 | The first to be for Members only and to be held on 8th . |
| 7 | Many of the appropriate works are likely to be for users who require a general introduction to a subject — even though , in some cases , the same user 's formal education may be highly advanced in another field . |
| 8 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 9 | Thinking about these questions produces the conclusions that are the starting point for Hughes 's paper : that the philosopher 's child invariably turns out to be male and that autonomy seems to be for men only . |
| 10 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 11 | well you should 've taken those Migrolifs because there supposed to be for migraines |
| 12 | Its use is intended to be for characters that walk , where you do n't want to have a Michael Jackson Moonwalk effect ( although that 's a doddle to do — you just move an actor backwards while it 's animated to walk forwards ) . |
| 13 | If local authorities have not been able to find sites how much more difficult is it going to be for gipsies themselves ? ’ he said . |
| 14 | Newmarket is the place to be for racegoers tomorrow , where the Tote Cesarewitch and the Dubai Champion Stakes worth a combined total of two hundred and twenty five thousand pounds are being run . |
| 15 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 16 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |