Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 2 | Among the longterm users , the majority of the 1989–90 applications were for H 2 -receptor blockers ( 88% ) . |
| 3 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 4 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 5 | The remaining six controls are for setting parameter values , effect variations or turning the effect on/off , depending on which mode the A2 is set to . |
| 6 | In a 1977 vote initiated by ASTMS at Greenock , 13,000 voted against union representation , and only 44 employees were for it . |
| 7 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 8 | The three applications are for report writing , cataloguing and document interchange . |
| 9 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The five points are for five consecutive days , and suggest that the bird has an intermediate optimum territory size . |
| 12 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 13 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 14 | I maintain that bilateral hearing is essential for sound location — as two eyes are for stereovision . |
| 15 | The struggle between these two classes was for Marx the key to understanding modern society and its likely future , which he envisaged as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat leading ultimately to a classless communist society . |
| 16 | Three million pounds is for employment training ; for employment action , which is specifically related to longer-term unemployment , there is £500,000 . |
| 17 | One of the four ads is for insurance , another for Sherwood 's and the other two draw the attention of anxious patients to a particular service offered by local solicitors . |
| 18 | Beetles can have pearl eyes only if both of the two genes are for pearl eyes . |
| 19 | These two developments are for Marxists contradictory since they ultimately undermine capitalism in the form of crises of legitimacy and fiscal insolvency . |
| 20 | Strictly , the only possible logical comparison between two operands is for equality or Inequality . |
| 21 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |