Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although most of my patterns are for single-bed machines , I am becoming more and more interested again in playing with double jacquard . |
| 2 | Culturally I must acknowledge my Spanish blood , but my sympathies are for the Quechua experience . |
| 3 | But my ambitions are for local government only . ’ |
| 4 | My orders are for this skeleton to be taken to the Natural History Museum in London , where scientific tests will reveal more about its true nature . |
| 5 | While the PRE has halted Mozambique 's rapid economic decline since the early 1980s , there have been doubts about how appropriate its policies are for a country still at war . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of their proposals is for the appointment of up to three bishops as ‘ provincial visitors ’ , outside the traditional structure of diocesan bishops . |
| 8 | Their proposals are for a traffic-calming ramp or similar device , or even just a sign reminding drivers of the speed limit . |
| 9 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 10 | One of her designs is for a lady 's version of the Norfolk jacket , which has been worn by Prince Charles on Sandringham shoots . |
| 11 | What had her motives been for keeping quiet then , for not behaving as ( perhaps ) most women would have behaved ? |
| 12 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use — washing machines , prams and hunting rifles , for instance . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 16 | Halflings are not especially warlike by nature , and their troopers are for the most part country watchmen , game wardens and foresters . |
| 17 | My priorities in life is smaller , more compact , but their priorities is for about ten , fifteen years from now . |
| 18 | A not uncommon solution to the feeling that the conventional family stunts the individuality of its members is for people to elect to live on their own . |
| 19 | In the absence of any significant movement on the Western Front people were bound to start asking what their sacrifices were for , and whether , if military victory was unattainable , some other way of stopping the slaughter should be found . |
| 20 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 21 | All her regrets were for herself , not him . |
| 22 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 23 | Big chested where their lungs are for running . |
| 24 | It stands beside the river in the city of the new Jerusalem , where God and his people once more live together — and its leaves are for " the healing of the nations " ( Revelation 22:2 ) . |
| 25 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 26 | Oh I dug out my , or the company 's in fact , membership of P C W World , erm and tomorrow I 've got a note to phone them and ask them how much their keyboards are for Amstrads . |
| 27 | A further communication will enquire what their intentions are for the site . |
| 28 | A further communication will enquire what their intentions are for the site . |
| 29 | ‘ So it occurred to me that you , as my great-uncle 's ghillie , might even have known what his plans were for his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 30 | The first-level supervision , known as the deputy , stood in a service rather than an executive relation , his responsibilities being for safety , maintenance of supplies , and shot-firing rather than for direct supervision . |