Example sentences of "[noun] it is [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 2 | And where such statutory means are slow to act or uncertain of their action it is not for us to make pre-emptive strikes in the name of propriety . |
| 3 | If a thing is objectively so for one choice of means it is so for another ; it is a contradiction to estimate the capabilities of a subject class or race in one way when they are tractable and in another when they are not . |
| 4 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 5 | As a result of this section , it is now open to a person to claim that he was unaware of the effect that his words or conduct might be having , in which case it is then for the prosecutor to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he was so aware . |
| 6 | Yeah but I mean that 's , that 's not the thing cos that 's not the sort of thing it is actually for though . |
| 7 | In Land and Rose 's ( 1985 ) evocative phrase , altruism is ‘ compulsory ’ for women in a way it is not for men . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |