Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] is [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme that is devised for them will usually be geared largely towards communication skills and will probably include craft , drama , and life skills which thus serve a dual function . |
| 2 | If we do this often enough , and most of us do , then these ways of being become habitual and eventually the muscle tension that is required for these unnatural positions becomes fixed into our body . |
| 3 | The only expense that is paid for is air transport , when they use aircraft of the Queen 's flight , the Royal Train , and the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 4 | If the latter were the case depressed share prices would not be a reliable indicator of badly-managed companies and hence the market for control could not have the efficiency-stimulating effect that is claimed for it . |
| 5 | Much more vigorous action than is provided for in the Bill is needed . |
| 6 | To calculate the amount of fabric that is left for the pleats , deduct the pole length from the finished fabric width , and divide the result by the number of spaces . |
| 7 | It is the company 's second laser flash instrument and is used for measuring materials at temperatures up to 1100°C and can be upgraded for testing at temperatures between 1000 and 2000°C . |
| 8 | The company has just cancelled its contract with BASF for chrome tape and is opting for a cheaper brand of conventional ferric oxide tape . |
| 9 | The algorithm is implemented in the program yacorder and is used for positioning contigs which do not contain any mapped probes and so can not be positioned directly . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) It shall be the duty of the governors , in the case of a county or voluntary school , and of the local education authority by whom the school is maintained , in the case of a maintained nursery school ( a ) to use their best endeavours , in exercising their functions in relation to the school , to secure that if any registered pupil has special education needs the special educational provision that is required for him is made ( b ) to secure that , where the responsible person has been informed by the local education authority that a registered pupil has special needs these are made known to all who are likely to teach him ; and ( c ) to secure that the teachers in the school are aware of the importance of identifying , and providing for , those registered pupils who have special educational needs . |
| 11 | Similarly , the explosion in the population of sentenced prisoners , which was an ongoing phenomenon for most of the 1990s , appears to be largely attributable to the persistent practice of ‘ over-sentencing ’ — both in the sense of using custody unnecessarily for minor property offenders and others , and of imposing longer sentences across the board than is required for strictly reductivist purposes — for which responsibility rests mainly , but not exclusively , with the Crown Court . |
| 12 | Investigators will examine every royal building that is paid for by the state . |
| 13 | Will the Minister discuss with the regional chairman the formula base that is used for the distribution of money to the districts ? |
| 14 | They will welcome the support that is given for that process from the centre . |
| 15 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 16 | This is in clear contrast to the divergence model in Indo-European studies , and as a result of this contrast , the shape that emerges from historical language description ( from ancient times to the present day ) is not so much a pyramidal shape ( with gradual convergence at the top ) as a funnel shape ( the kind that is used for pouring liquids ) , as in figure 3.1 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is important that we do not use one penny of money that is earmarked for patient care , ’ he added . |
| 18 | The taxpayer : The financial targets set for each agency are designed to be demanding , ‘ so that the taxpayer can be certain that the money that is provided for these services is used in the most efficient way ’ . |
| 19 | Does not the Minister agree that it will be a travesty if the same formula is used this year and my constituents are therefore robbed of much more money that is needed for health in the area ? |
| 20 | On the other hand , there are various time deposits that earn interest in banks , building societies and the National Savings Bank which are used by the public as an alternative means of holding money that is used for expenditure purposes . |
| 21 | The usual test that is given for this is the Snellen chart for visual acuity , which is well known to anyone who has had a routine medical examination . |
| 22 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 23 | But they will take into account any special help that is needed for somebody who 's disabled . |
| 24 | Regulations now in force put health and safety duties on the original supplier of equipment that is leased for use at work , rather than on the lessor ( p 114 ) . |
| 25 | The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs . |
| 26 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 27 | Here Goldmann is opening the question that is closed for Marx and Lukács ; is science merely a form of ideology ? |
| 28 | It is currently in beta test and is scheduled for general release on HP-UX systems in the first quarter of 1993 , CA says . |
| 29 | Scott 's Captain Waverley , as a southern Whig , is momentarily infatuated with the Jacobite Highlands , but he returns south and is pardoned for his treason . |
| 30 | He has finished with winter and is waiting for May . |