Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] be for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 A couple of them 's got ‘ B's in them and I try and work out which one 's for me , but it 's too hard .
2 I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick .
3 But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise .
4 and completed this , this wonderful piece of thera therapy , which it was for him ,
5 Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect .
6 This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another .
7 It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me .
8 Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ .
9 Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ .
10 He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it .
11 And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning :
12 Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ?
13 For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on .
14 Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal .
15 I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me .
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