Example sentences of "[be] for [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 2 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 3 | The programs given in this manual are for demonstration and learning purposes ; they are not intended to be taken and used as working programs without modification to suit your needs . |
| 4 | Other sponsorships could be for travel or study overseas or for specific research or a long-term project . |
| 5 | This shows how important such adjustments can be for units that provide neonatal intensive care . |
| 6 | In September Cheney announced that the increased use of US military personnel in combating drugs in Latin America would be for training and advising , but not in participation in anti-drugs operations . |
| 7 | The files they carried would be for show and had no importance . |
| 8 | La Tribune speculates that an agreement between the two would be for production and to share the cost of development , which continues to mushroom . |
| 9 | Its use is intended to be for characters that walk , where you do n't want to have a Michael Jackson Moonwalk effect ( although that 's a doddle to do — you just move an actor backwards while it 's animated to walk forwards ) . |
| 10 | 185 Squadron now moved to Takali alongside the newly-arrived unit with its own remaining ten Mark Is and two Mark IIs , leaving Luqa and Hal Far free for the time being for use as staging airfields to Egypt , and as bases for the bombers and reconnaissance aircraft . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's figures were for February and did not include recent huge job losses at Rolls-Royce . |
| 12 | Reminders that responsibilities were for policy-making and relating government priorities to local needs offered no real guide to role or purpose . |
| 13 | Libya rejected the USA 's criticism , saying that the planes were for self-defence and asking how the USA could justify its military supplies to Israel . |
| 14 | Where the offer is for cash or includes an element of cash , the offer document must include confirmation by an appropriate third party ( eg the offeror 's bank or financial adviser ) that the offeror has sufficient resources to satisfy acceptances of the offer in full ( although , in exceptional circumstances , with the consent of the Panel , a conditional form of confirmation may be allowed if the provision of cash is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions ) ( Rule 24.7 ) . |
| 15 | And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible . |
| 16 | Marie Hegarty , head of the business department , said : ‘ Whether it is for pleasure or profit the care of horses requires a considerable commitment in time and money . |
| 17 | Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that |
| 18 | The face was hardest to tan , and this model , which was for professionals and cost £5,912 plus VAT , featured three facial tanning units , one to tan the front of the face and two others to tan the sides . |
| 19 | The arrangement was for Dorli and Lieserl to be looked after by a young Leeds couple , Theo and Tilly Hall , who had offered to take in refugee children . |
| 20 | BBC Radio 4 was for news and talk ; Radio 3 , for classical music . |
| 21 | But I suppose really it was for supplies that came by ship to be carried to some of the houses on the hill , the Ranger 's House , or the Observatory . ’ |
| 22 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |