Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 2 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |