Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] for [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
2 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
3 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
4 | th th there 's , basically there 's an ord it has an ordinary editor which is sub right , it 's an ASCII editor that appears in a window and it 's for using , for editing the ASCII files . |
5 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
6 | We have the report and it is for noting . |
7 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
8 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
9 | but it 's for playing golf in . |
10 | It 's a glove , but it 's for covering the hand . |
11 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |
12 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
13 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |