Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [is] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a purse love it 's for erm soap and you know toothbrushes and things like that . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 3 | And then sh Elizabeth had come over by then and I said it 's it 's in her bag , so we had a look at it and her friend said it 's for angina , it always makes her ill ! |
| 4 | Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children , but only where it can clearly be shown that the interests of the children require it should the court refuse to order their return . |
| 5 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 6 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 7 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 8 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 9 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |