Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 2 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 3 | The data prepared was for directories such as Crockford 's Clerical Directory and the OUP General Catalogue . |
| 4 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 5 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 6 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 7 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 8 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 9 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 10 | However , all the speed thresholds mentioned are for guidance only . |
| 11 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 12 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 13 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 14 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 15 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 16 | Selection has been for growth potential ; the average 400-day weight of bulls is 447kg and their mature weight 966kg , with an average withers height of 140cm ( the breed minimum is 132cm ) . |
| 17 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 18 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 19 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 20 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 21 | Architectural influence here is not notable since timber has been for centuries the traditional building material . |
| 22 | The struggle for most of the centres has been for funds . |
| 23 | This time axis shown is for radiation . |
| 24 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 25 | Some 90% of sales have been for databases , electronic mail systems and Computer Aided Design . |
| 26 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 27 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 28 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 29 | The prices quoted are for May and June 1992 . |
| 30 | The data points shown are for QDOT ( , ref. 6 ; ○ , refs 2 , 3 ) , the bulk-flow field ( i ) and the power spectrum extrapolated from the COBE quadrupole measurement , assuming a scale-invariant spectrum ( ○ ) , with 1 error bars . |