Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 2 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 3 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 4 | All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to . |
| 5 | If I 'm honest I 'll have to admit that the major application of my research will be for commercial drug production . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the total figure will be for new road schemes in the Antrim , South constituency for ( a ) 1992-93 , ( b ) 1993-94 and ( c ) 1994-95 . |
| 7 | An appropriate response might be for four strong women to hold him down while a fifth administers a local anaesthetic and removes his balls . |
| 8 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 9 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 10 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 11 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 12 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 13 | Another potential future LAN would be for Public Services and Publications , in view of the close functional links which have developed between some of their activities , and the need to minimise cost increases by sharing expensive hardware . |
| 14 | Not all visits would be for four weeks and not every Group would have exactly four visitors each year . |
| 15 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates the public sector borrowing requirement will be for 1992-93 . |
| 16 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 17 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 18 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 19 | Multi-millionaire Richard Branson agreed with the move to curb pay but he reckons that this is a negative avenue and a more positive move would be for big UK companies with cash ( the likes of Hanson , GEC , etc ) to start splashing it about . |
| 20 | However , auctioneers believe that most of the applications will be for eight to ten-month-old store cattle . |
| 21 | Their experience well illustrates Swords-Isherwood and Senker 's argument that the need will be for increased numbers of such workers , and that they should possess multiple skills : for example , electronics , electrical , and mechanical . |
| 22 | Our desire can be for physical satisfaction , for wealth , power or the need for recognition , for satisfying the intellect or our heart , or simply for the seeking of pleasure . |
| 23 | Will he consider conducting an inquiry into what the optimum pupil-teacher ratio should be for each age of children , because that ratio will differ ? |
| 24 | The first step in forging an alliance of Euro-Parliamentarians would be for national MPs to be invited to the special hearings on changes to the Rome Treaty being organised by the European Parliament . |
| 25 | The logical development would be for closer examination of early foetuses with a view to detecting minor deficiencies which many babies are born with . |
| 26 | These groups would be involved in a ‘ demand-side ’ classificatory struggle with the more established members of the dominant classes whose aesthetic tastes would be for high modernist art . |
| 27 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 28 | It is anticipated that the usual request will be for all cross-references pointing to a given range of entries . |
| 29 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 30 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |