Example sentences of "[noun pl] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think it is that that you get erm that you have got quite a few girls that become prostitutes , what do you think the reasons are for it ? |
| 2 | These syllables are for me the quintessence of the Beautiful , the Worthy , they are an inspiration , a political confession of faith and a moral and spiritual claim ’ . |
| 3 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 4 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
| 5 | As my hon. Friend knows , fiscal matters are for our right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 6 | So company obligations , but the good news is , the company obligations are for your benefit . |
| 7 | Playing the piano is as easy for Cziffra as playing tiddly-winks is for you and me . |
| 8 | All these ideas are for what I would call BIG presents . |
| 9 | If you find yourself prey to regular bad night terrors , it might be worthwhile talking the problem through with a counsellor , trained in dream analysis , to look at the imagery and try to discover what the messages are for you , what your fears are all about . |
| 10 | The three Established Church representatives set themselves against ; the other four who were Free Churchmen were for it . |
| 11 | And of course you your mangles was for your a and your turnips for your Winter fodder . |
| 12 | Red lights are for our benefit . |
| 13 | ( Some of the TRAGEDIANS are for it , others against . ) |
| 14 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 15 | Sonya asks him , ‘ I do n't understand : how will things be for you , how will you marry and have children ? ’ — of course thinking about his estrangement from human kind ; and he replies ( Dostoevsky 's italics ) : ‘ I 'll get used to it . ’ |
| 16 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |
| 17 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 18 | I thought your efforts were for me . ’ |
| 19 | It did n't need a Russian scholar to understand that the bald man was claiming that the documents and the guns were for him , only food and drink for the ‘ businessmen ’ . |
| 20 | Orbach ( 1978 ) , for instance , suggests that the solution to women 's eating problems is for them to develop more positive feelings about their physical , sexual , intellectual , and social selves . |
| 21 | Well if one of those flats is for you , here 's just the thing to set off the view from the window . |
| 22 | Important though each of these qualities is for his survival in office , they are over-shadowed by that most prized of all political virtues : knowing where he wants to go . |
| 23 | It fermented you see the cattle was for it . |
| 24 | DAY CENTRES ARE FOR EVERYONE |
| 25 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 26 | Set meals are for one . |
| 27 | Both slices are for you . |
| 28 | Daum now wants UEFA to accept that the rules regarding foreign players are for everyone else — but not for him because he had yet another excusable lapse of memory . |
| 29 | But a lot of the controls are for his mou … for the bucket . |
| 30 | She did n't know if the tears were for herself or her father . |