Example sentences of "[vb mod] be for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area .
2 Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting .
3 Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study .
4 May apply to more than one contract , but ’ call off ’ orders should be for specific projects .
5 I tend to think that it should really be left outside the development plan process and it should be for individual developers to prove exceptional needs .
6 Will he consider conducting an inquiry into what the optimum pupil-teacher ratio should be for each age of children , because that ratio will differ ?
7 The way forward should be for both sides to try and understand one another , to recognise each others ' rights , feelings and beliefs .
8 All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to .
9 However , when you tack it should be for tactical reasons .
10 As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac .
11 But there is no reason for the Community to get involved in employment legislation , which must be for each country to decide for itself .
12 Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide .
13 The limitation that " consumer goods " must be for private use or consumption , whilst a " product " can be supplied for any use , does not mean that suppliers of industrial or business products can escape their responsibilities , because the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 will apply .
14 oh that 's , that must be for burning coke then
15 erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information .
16 This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries .
17 The Focus Activity asks you to choose an alternative way of delivering care ; to describe how this could be implemented in your situation ; and what the consequences might be for individual clients , costs and staffing .
18 This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes .
19 However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions .
20 A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits .
21 Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous .
22 This could be for many reasons : for example the database does not contain a good example of that particular form of letter , or the character may have been badly written .
23 They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more .
24 His debt did not have to be less than £20 ; it could be for any amount .
25 That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy .
26 It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own .
27 An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years .
28 Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit .
29 In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ?
30 Erm , you can use ordinary spelling , you probably will use ordinary spelling , or phonetic transcription , this may be for short sections .
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