Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 2 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 3 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 4 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 5 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 6 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 7 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 8 | However , all the speed thresholds mentioned are for guidance only . |
| 9 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 10 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 12 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 13 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 14 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 15 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
| 16 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 17 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 18 | Some of the Government 's changes have been for the better . |
| 19 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 20 | The figures quoted are for a mix of wastes requiring incineration . |
| 21 | The struggle for most of the centres has been for funds . |
| 22 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 23 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 24 | The rates quoted are for a single person in 1989/90 . |
| 25 | Our pricing system means rates quoted are for two sharing a cabin but when three travel together considerable savings are available . |
| 26 | Prices shown are for double rooms . |
| 27 | The percentages shown are for all Cambridge University/WEA Tutorial Classes which included some arranged beyond the Eastern District , e.g. Nuneaton and Rugby . |
| 28 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |
| 29 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 30 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |