Example sentences of "[is] [adv] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says it 's only for to keep your name right . |
| 2 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 3 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 4 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 5 | No , this is this is just for changing the stations . |
| 6 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
| 7 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 8 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 9 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 10 | it 's not worth , supposed to be a freezer , it 's mainly for storing frozen food , but you can freeze small amounts in it . |
| 11 | This is because the output logogen system is solely for producing words , and the input logogen systems can only recognise words — a spoken or printed non-word would not cause an input logogen to respond , and hence non-words can not enter the mental lexicon at all . |
| 12 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 13 | What other reason is there for growing fresh vegetables and flowers near to large cities ? |
| 14 | What alternative framework is there for analysing teaching quality ? |
| 15 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 16 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 17 | He 's doolally for putting up with it is n't he ? |
| 18 | For example , there may be a grant which is specifically for building a capital asset . |
| 19 | If there is a module which is specifically for testing the module under construction , then the loose coupling relation IS-TESTED-BY should be used : |