Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our official brokerage network knows which boats are for sale worldwide and can help find exactly the right Swan for you . |
| 2 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 3 | The Arup scheme held centre stage , but the public , whose views were for once solicited , showed a very definite preference for the Simpson plan . |
| 4 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 5 | The housing stock which remains with the local authority tends to be less attractive than what is sold off , and much of it is less suitable for elderly people whose needs are for low-cost , good quality housing with ground-floor access in a safe and secure neighbourhood and close to good social support networks . |
| 6 | Whose Tongues are for a Week supply 'd |
| 7 | Despite the Party programme and frequent reiteration of the line , the record in practice seemed appalling — ranging from the Russian colonists , operating under the banners of Soviet power and universal freedom ; the arbitrary and cruel behaviour of raw troops operating in alien lands and in danger , far from the watching eyes of Moscow ; the role of former Tsarist officers whose instincts were for the patriotic defence of all the territories of the former empire , without concession to local nationalism ; to the contempt of the Bolshevik ultra-Left for all forms of nationalism . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what solicitors are for . ’ |
| 9 | That 's what solicitors are for . ’ |
| 10 | Between now and then , the row that biotechnology generates is going to make everyone think anew about what animals are for . |
| 11 | ‘ That , Vitali , is what Inquisitors are for . |
| 12 | That is what backbenchers are for . |
| 13 | ‘ The General Staff has at last discovered what fighters are for . |
| 14 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 15 | That 's what wives are for . ’ |
| 16 | Was n't that what sisters were for ? |
| 17 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 18 | I believe this is what friends are for , to give support at this time . |
| 19 | White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater on General Noriega That 's what friends are for . |
| 20 | ‘ Is n't that what friends are for ? ’ |
| 21 | That 's not what friends are for . |
| 22 | Then our exchange ; my ‘ Is n't that what friends are for ? ’ |
| 23 | Tanya Irwin , who had arrived with a gaggle of student chums with the intention of having a laugh , did just that , skipping into Round Two with her rendition of ‘ That 's What Friends Are For ’ . |
| 24 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 25 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 26 | Jean , that 's what drawers are for ! everything , look at that dir lo look at that now ! |
| 27 | That 's what Cabinets are for , and lively discussions usually lead to good decisions . |
| 28 | That 's what Cabinets are for , and lively discussions usually lead to good decisions . ’ |