Example sentences of "[is] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It says here the mercury 's for dental purposes , but I do n't think there 's much doubt what it 's actually for . |
2 | ‘ I respect the fact that The Jam can touch people and what they 're doing is an attempt to be ‘ real ’ — no myth or far-fetched fantasy — and it 's for real people , not people who follow trends . |
3 | I say it 's for young fellows like yourself and myself , ’ Fonsie said . |
4 | It 's for young people aged 12 to 17 years , and is n't necessarily for Pinewood Village residents — anyone interested from the whole locality would be welcome . |
5 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
6 | Now we do n't do wanted items or giveaways or anything like that , you know we do n't do that on the programme , that 's for other programmes . |
7 | And that was mainly for dog dirt but now it 's for other hazards int it ? |
8 | Oh that 's for in-house training for actual customers in their own organisations is n't it ? |
9 | exactly , that 's for rich people , it only really helps the rich that 's been |
10 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
11 | So that 's for total pocket money three hundred and sixty . |
12 | That 's for late night shopping at |
13 | And that 's for run-of-the-mill managers . |
14 | That does n't immediately occur to me that it 's for blind people |
15 | Whether it 's for fresh juice or making coffee in the microwave , the versatile Microbist jug is a must for the modern kitchen . |
16 | Well I think Simon for doing it is a really excellent way of doing it , it states the source of items , suggestions or quiffs , and makes a proposal erm , which we can debate agreed , and then it 's for clear instructions to what needs to be changed on the procedure . |
17 | I think that 's for little babies is n't it ? |
18 | And the first one is based at a project called and it 's for unemployed people in . |
19 | ‘ That 's for old women over thirty . ’ |
20 | It 's for old people , our Church . |
21 | It 's for initial research into the unique problems experienced by portables users when detached from the network like loss of access to data . |
22 | ‘ Bed 's for dead people , ai n't it ? ’ |
23 | It 's for mad dogs and Englishmen . |
24 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |
25 | We believe a reasonable target is for civil R&D to increase from the present 1.8 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP . |
26 | One logical fix to this geographical mis-match is for inner-city blacks to commute out from the ghettos to the suburbs . |
27 | Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use — washing machines , prams and hunting rifles , for instance . |
28 | We give to certain proper charities , of course — the Invalid Asylum , which is for respectable females , and the Female Refuge , which is for penitent fallen women , and the Yorkshire Boys ’ School in London , and the Railway Servants ' Orphanage . |
29 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
30 | The most pressing need is for close consultation on Germany . |