Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 2 | Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study . |
| 3 | May apply to more than one contract , but ’ call off ’ orders should be for specific projects . |
| 4 | I tend to think that it should really be left outside the development plan process and it should be for individual developers to prove exceptional needs . |
| 5 | The way forward should be for both sides to try and understand one another , to recognise each others ' rights , feelings and beliefs . |
| 6 | All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to . |
| 7 | However , when you tack it should be for tactical reasons . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 10 | The Focus Activity asks you to choose an alternative way of delivering care ; to describe how this could be implemented in your situation ; and what the consequences might be for individual clients , costs and staffing . |
| 11 | This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes . |
| 12 | A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits . |
| 13 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 14 | This could be for many reasons : for example the database does not contain a good example of that particular form of letter , or the character may have been badly written . |
| 15 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 16 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 17 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 18 | Erm , you can use ordinary spelling , you probably will use ordinary spelling , or phonetic transcription , this may be for short sections . |
| 19 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 20 | Opportunities for communication may have been reduced ; the concentration needed to listen attentively may be for shorter periods ; the whole process of comprehension and response may have slowed down . |
| 21 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 22 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 23 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 24 | We will also be showing why continued research should be permitted , and how disastrous it would be for all women if the policy advocated by the Pro-Life lobby were to be adopted . |
| 25 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 26 | The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life . |
| 27 | Not all visits would be for four weeks and not every Group would have exactly four visitors each year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And the idea here was that one would be for incoming goods , and one would be for empty wagons or the other way round , er going out . |
| 30 | And the idea here was that one would be for incoming goods , and one would be for empty wagons or the other way round , er going out . |