Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] be for " in BNC.

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1 I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries .
2 It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class .
3 In London 's East End , the social composition of the area will ultimately be substantially changed as a result of the building of 25,000 dwellings — the vast majority of which are for owner-occupation .
4 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 .
5 When I , when I came here I saw a shop in which was for sale .
6 To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely .
7 If your complaint can not be resolved locally , your representative will ask you to complete a report form , the original of which is for you and a copy will be forwarded to our Head Office .
8 But er it was quite a simple job and er I liked it , then now and again I used to walk down to the station master 's or the station inspector 's office you know , have a chat with him and and get the gen on what was for the weekend working you see .
9 Yet there were also great difficulties in fitting these large numbers of people into what was for them a new and strange society .
10 Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination .
11 ‘ I have brought you here , Miss Kyte , ’ resumed Miss Merchiston in what was for her a pleasant tone , ‘ that you may tell Mr Quatt of what passed between yourself and my dear mother . ’
12 Or that the only purpose of it is for procreation , which is obviously disproved in the above passage .
13 Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation .
14 erm from my recollection the main problem with it is for the most part , I think , these self-build projects , where they 've been erm pursued in other places , have used land which was not otherwise utilizable , and that 's the way that they 've actually reduced the price of the finished house .
15 All the hurt inside me is for Gerry , really .
16 For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever .
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