Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 2 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 3 | The administrative budget was for some RF26,000 million , a reduction in real terms over the previous year , and the investment budget stood at RF14,320,000 , of which some RF5,500 million came from domestic financing and the remainder ( 61 per cent ) from external sources . |
| 4 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 5 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 6 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 7 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 8 | This chapter is for those who may need to make decisions about equipping a teaching institution with video recording hardware . |
| 9 | However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience . |
| 10 | And this figure is for each cell , not all the cells of a body put together . |
| 11 | The partial answer to this dilemma was for most of Laura 's exotic ideas to be available in a special , higher priced ‘ Decorator Collection ’ . |
| 12 | Occasionally a married man , particularly if his sexual capacity is for some reason declining , may find pornography more attractive than the " real thing " . |
| 13 | Thus while philanthropic work was for some integral to their feminist beliefs , for others it represented merely a diversion from household cares , a sublimation of other desires , or , and this was probably the most common motivation , a socially acceptable way for both married women and their daughters to engage in purposeful work . |
| 14 | Paddlers who normally carry a throwbag in a buoyancy aid back pocket will continue to do so but this holster is for those who do not have back pockets in their buoyancy aids or , indeed , bank support members not wearing buoyancy aids at all . |
| 15 | This cake is for those with a sense of the macabre , or a love for the old Hammer Horror films . |
| 16 | It should be apparent therefore that public transport is for many people on Skerne Park a lifeline link to town centre and vital facilities such as supermarkets and doctors . |
| 17 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
| 18 | Any attempt , in the period between the two World Wars , to raise the school-leaving age or to provide secondary education on a more generous scale was for these reasons bound to encounter sustained political opposition . |
| 19 | When we take somebody , assess their needs and offer them a care package , in terms of the elderly , erm , and more importantly in terms of those with physical disability or learning disability , we have basically got to support that person for the rest of their life , and therefore , the commitment is not just for the current year , the commitment in , in the case of the elderly depending on what is being offered , whether it be nursing home care , or residential care is for several months or years . |
| 20 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 21 | One easy way of finding an acceptable language is for both of you to separately say or write down words you are happy with and words you do n't like . |
| 22 | What is lacking at this stage is for some imaginative research laboratory or university department to contact serious UFO researchers and design an experimental study for these UAPs . |
| 23 | what the overall overhead is for this organization , in terms of people |
| 24 | The official aim is for all countries to take a critical look at their own communications policies and to help the developing nations improve theirs . |
| 25 | Do you have any idea what the average annual rate is for this ? |
| 26 | As we have noted in Lecture l , the ‘ no government ’ economy is a purely hypothetical construct , and several writers ( e.g. , Prest , 1968 ) have argued that the global comparison is for this reason of little interest . |
| 27 | The following advice is for those working in a group ( the above is of course applicable also for groups ) : |
| 28 | Advanced Diesel is for all diesel engined vehicles . |
| 29 | Noise is a potent trigger and its constant presence is for many teachers very wearing . |
| 30 | ‘ How fit shooting is for all kinds of men : how honest a pastime for the mind ; how wholesome an exercise for the body . ’ |