Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How fit shooting is for all kinds of men : how honest a pastime for the mind ; how wholesome an exercise for the body . ’ |
| 2 | However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience . |
| 3 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 4 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 5 | The plan is for both units to work closely together . |
| 6 | The helpline is for both authorities . |
| 7 | The official aim is for all countries to take a critical look at their own communications policies and to help the developing nations improve theirs . |
| 8 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 9 | A suitable compromise is for both parties to rely on the opinion of a leading Queen 's Counsel as to whether or not and to what extent the purchaser 's claim is likely to succeed . |
| 10 | ECOVER floor soap is for all types of floors . |
| 11 | If one believes that education is for all children and must be regarded as in many ways the great equalizer , it is hard to accept the proposition that education in morality and religion should be left to parents whose fulfilment of this obligation will be far from equal . |
| 12 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 13 | I would like to see agenda 's for these meetings public available I 'd like to see some commercial experience by a vote of general manager and their trustee 's . |
| 14 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 15 | Mr Major told the Commons yesterday the EC economies ‘ are not remotely ready for one currency and I believe they will not be ready if they every will be for many years . ’ |
| 16 | Any attempt , in the period between the two World Wars , to raise the school-leaving age or to provide secondary education on a more generous scale was for these reasons bound to encounter sustained political opposition . |
| 17 | Over in the dance and the world-music scenes , the fashion is for all things Brazilian . |
| 18 | When we take somebody , assess their needs and offer them a care package , in terms of the elderly , erm , and more importantly in terms of those with physical disability or learning disability , we have basically got to support that person for the rest of their life , and therefore , the commitment is not just for the current year , the commitment in , in the case of the elderly depending on what is being offered , whether it be nursing home care , or residential care is for several months or years . |
| 19 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 20 | Noise is a potent trigger and its constant presence is for many teachers very wearing . |
| 21 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 22 | Family Allowance as it stands at present is for many women the only money we have which belongs to us by right . |
| 23 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 24 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 25 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 26 | In the courtyard , a 14th-century half-timbered and thatched roof building was for many centuries the local courthouse where justice was meted out . |
| 27 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 28 | However , teaching was for all levels of junior doctors together . |
| 29 | Although the human operator is for many purposes within ergonomics appropriately considered as a mere information processing device , any design issue must be considered in the context that these human operators are individuals and citizens within communities . |