Example sentences of "[noun pl] be for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This just shows how hungry institutions are for commissions , ’ one banker said . |
| 2 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
| 3 | Many requests are for details of fibreboard d-i-y projects — FIDOR can supply booklets which will enable you to construct a serving trolley , make a bedhead , build a stylish fire surround , or a kitchen island unit . |
| 4 | The advertisers obviously wish to give the idea that their products are for blondes or light-skinned people only , or maybe that if you use their product you will suddenly be transformed into a seductive beauty with a string of young men at your fingertips . |
| 5 | Mobile mums groups are for mums with ‘ mobile ’ toddlers who need toddler-proof houses but who are maybe not ready yet for the rough and tumble of Open houses . |
| 6 | The highest salaries paid to local authority officers involved with the arts are for Directors and Assistant Directors of Museums and Gallery Services . |
| 7 | Quarrels are for lovers . ’ |
| 8 | It 's where shaving 's for weddings , ties are for funerals and tea is brewed in a billy , then swung overhead to settle the leaves ( or to scare the spiders away , depending on who 's pulling your leg ) . |
| 9 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Words are for facts . |
| 11 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 12 | Eighty-one of the schools were for boys , ninety-five for girls , and two were mixed . |
| 13 | These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided . |
| 14 | The perfectly kept living-rooms of Tollemarche homes were for visitors ; the basements , despite their fire hazards , were good enough for the children ; there they often slept and there , if the temperature went much below zero , they also played . |
| 15 | Books were for eggheads . |
| 16 | Wednesdays are for jobs in the media . |
| 17 | Irrigation pump models are for engines of up to 45 kW . |
| 18 | The site visits are for Friends members only . |
| 19 | and one of the criteria that Derek said that they would , would be supporting bids were for ones that would start at the beginning of May . |
| 20 | The most urgent need of the mid-1960s was for teachers , and the Secretary of State in a speech to the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers earlier in April 1965 , outlined new policies . |
| 21 | Company MBAs are for organisations wishing to sponsor 15 or more people . |
| 22 | Its responsibilities are for schools and further and higher education ( excluding universities , which are the responsibility of the DES , but including central institutions and teacher training ) . |
| 23 | Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps . |
| 24 | Explanations are for children . ’ |
| 25 | The pipefitters ' main responsibilities were for aspects of the plant 's infrastructure rather than for particular machines . |
| 26 | Stomachs were for tartes aux pomme and cailles aux raisins , not to be examined in laboratories . |
| 27 | Another use of ivory initiated by Late Pleistocene hunting bands was for figurines . |
| 28 | And if the leg holes are for legs , why not put her legs in first , leaving the waist hole until later ? |
| 29 | The main requirements of the Management Regulations are for employers to : |
| 30 | ‘ Dreams are for children , Travis , ’ she said flatly , eyes on the flames in the hearth . |