Example sentences of "[prep] be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The more Jane Holt mulled things over in her mind , the less cause there seemed to be for alarm . |
| 3 | All her concern seemed to be for Terry 's family , especially his mother , and Anne was even more surprised when Sarah refused to go back to the house with her . |
| 4 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fourteenth century showed how valuable access to the sea , and in particular to northern waters , was to be for France . |
| 7 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In all cases the premises ought to be defined by reference to a plan , probably stated to be for identification purposes only unless the plan is supposed to take precedence over the verbal description of the premises . |
| 10 | The precedent suggests the inclusion of a plan and , while it is suggested that where the premises are clearly defined there is no necessity for a plan , there is little doubt that a plan stated to be for identification purposes ( and thereby preventing the plan from prevailing over the verbal description ) is advisable . |
| 11 | if it 's any consolation the new course is reckoned to be for experts only … ask Sandy Lyle … |
| 12 | The first to be for Members only and to be held on 8th . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 15 | If it 's to be for life . |
| 16 | But marriage , well , after all it 's supposed to be for life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A book by Mother Teresa has said much to us about how we are to be for Jesus in this situation . ’ |
| 19 | Cyclists who would use the path are most likely to be for recreation at weekends , as a means of getting from the city to the countryside . |
| 20 | ‘ I know that , but when we go away I do n't want it to be for business — I want to have you all to myself . ’ |
| 21 | As soon as people realise that Britain is the place to be for business they shout foul . ’ |
| 22 | It is to be noted that even in the case of a fiduciary the ambit of his duty once he has ceased to be for example , a director , is circumscribed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , contracts traded on a futures exchange recognised under the FSA , such as the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange ( LIFFE ) , are deemed to be for investment purposes . |
| 25 | Not only is the amount absurd , but around £4.5 million of it is supposed to be for loss of earnings . |
| 26 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |
| 27 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
| 28 | The firm 's building , owned jointly by Tajan and his two associates and estimated at FFr80–100 million before the recent slump in Paris property prices , is also reported to be for sale . |
| 29 | A proactive search is undertaken to identify companies and businesses which are not necessarily known to be for sale but which meet the client 's acquisition criteria . |
| 30 | No , actually that was supposed to be for Christmas , as it goes . |