Example sentences of "[adj] to be for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 2 | But marriage , well , after all it 's supposed to be for life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | No , actually that was supposed to be for Christmas , as it goes . |
| 4 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 5 | well you should 've taken those Migrolifs because there supposed to be for migraines |
| 6 | Not only is the amount absurd , but around £4.5 million of it is supposed to be for loss of earnings . |
| 7 | However , a shocked Danish bureaucrat blew the whistle on Mr Hocke as that ‘ refugee education fund ’ was only supposed to be for Mr Hartling and not any old non-Danish High Commissioner . |
| 8 | The US 's supplies are supposed to be for use only in national catastrophes such as war . |
| 9 | Many of the appropriate works are likely to be for users who require a general introduction to a subject — even though , in some cases , the same user 's formal education may be highly advanced in another field . |
| 10 | Cyclists who would use the path are most likely to be for recreation at weekends , as a means of getting from the city to the countryside . |
| 11 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |