Example sentences of "[is] for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |
| 2 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and environmental goals , ’ Mr Patten said — a statement that would have jarred on his predecessor , and , until recently , on the party faithful . |
| 4 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 5 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 6 | That 's for mum to know and you to guess . |
| 7 | There 're are complicated members of the terror act and it 's not an entirely frivolous suggesting because if you have any doubts that the performance of this County Council in it 's for duty to maintain the rights of way network to a standard appropriate for the traffic , then go and look even at a small part of John 's film . |
| 8 | It goes exactly my grandmother 's oven except that stupid gate oh that 's for people look it 's all wooden look it 's all woo |
| 9 | Coming up in the next half hour , there 'll be a chance to win some superb prizes , that 's for horse racing fans , so stay listening for that . |
| 10 | You 've been reading B one 's for weeks have n't you ? |
| 11 | Well er , that 's for politicians watching , think about it to care about ! |
| 12 | What needs to happen is for players to learn how to ruck and maul more efficiently . |
| 13 | Now because of this initial asymmetry between the sexes and the size of the sex cells , the tendency is for females to concentrate on parental investment and males to concentrate on mating success . |
| 14 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 15 | SunLink ISDN is for users working at home or at remote sites accessing corporate computing resources over ISDN phone networks and transmitting images and graphics at high speeds . |
| 16 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 17 | For example , there is some disagreement about how wise it is for parents to intervene in their children 's quarrels , given that parental attention might unwittingly reinforce quarrelling . |
| 18 | The critical feature is for parents to feel that they are being listened to and that their problems are being appreciated and understood . |
| 19 | In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring . |
| 20 | A growing trend in North America is for parents to pay a laundry service to pick up a bucket each day . |
| 21 | According to Dr Judith Haynes of the educational psychologists ' group Child Consultants , the crucial thing is for parents to gain the child 's co-operation in establishing a revision regime in the weeks leading up to examinations . |
| 22 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 23 | The most imperative need of all when it comes to Lord 's where leg spinners often make their presence felt , is for England to have at least two left handers and to see how Warne gets on against them . |
| 24 | The most important thing right now is for England to qualify for next years World Cup Finals . |
| 25 | The most familiar description perhaps is that given by Lord Wright in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 at p611 : It is not a claim which the deceased could have pursued in his own lifetime because it is for damages suffered not by himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 26 | The plan is for Fulham to share Stamford Bridge . |
| 27 | Unsurprisingly , Mr Horner 's solution is for accountants to call in environmental experts , in much the same way as they now call in surveyors for property valuations . |
| 28 | The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling , cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records . |
| 29 | higher than this year , but it is for Derbyshire to decide its level of spending and priorities between services . |
| 30 | More excitement surrounding Proteus International Plc , the computer-aided molecular modelling and drug design specialist : it is setting up a 50-50 joint venture with University College Dublin for animal health care products : Bioprobe Ltd will be capable of rapid production of diagnostics , vaccines and therapeutic drugs for use by vets — the university and Proteus have been working together on tuberculosis and spongiform encephalopathies — mad cow disease and scrapie , for 12 months , and the aim is for Bioprobe to produce commercially exploitable products within 18 to 24 months . |