Example sentences of "be for [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 2 | The ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ listed in these tables are for many areas of study a realistic indication of the grades likely to be required and applicants who hold these grades stand an excellent chance of being made an offer , eg for most degrees in the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Science and Engineering , and the less pressured areas in the Social Sciences such as Nursing Studies or Social Policy . |
| 3 | To watch such animals biting their own bodies as a way of providing novel stimulation is to see just how inadequate even the most modern zoos are for this type of species . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm for another round of toast , ’ said Chico . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Oh , would be for that sort of money yeah |
| 7 | Similarly , the projects schemes that elect a member , it 's Councillor , who 's also willing to continue , and that 's for this period of time . |
| 8 | ECOVER floor soap is for all types of floors . |
| 9 | ‘ How fit shooting is for all kinds of men : how honest a pastime for the mind ; how wholesome an exercise for the body . ’ |
| 10 | The main requirement is for each degree of differentiation to be clearly demarcated from others in the eyes of buyers and for each firm to be the lowest-cost producer within each category . |
| 11 | Last night the four jurors said : ‘ We suggest the easiest way to resolve the matter is for each member of the jury to identify his own hand-written ballot paper . ’ |
| 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 | It is for this kind of reason that Kuhn compares scientific revolutions to political revolutions . |
| 14 | It is for this stratum of users and their families that heroin is the dragon with a sting in its tail , not the hidden middle-class users who can afford their habit and avoid the police and courts . |
| 15 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 16 | As we have noted in Lecture l , the ‘ no government ’ economy is a purely hypothetical construct , and several writers ( e.g. , Prest , 1968 ) have argued that the global comparison is for this reason of little interest . |
| 17 | Er now it s it seems that the idea is for this Isle of Man company I think you kn you know the name of it do n't you which I 've forgotten . |
| 18 | The demand is for some kind of necessity , some sense in which an increase in the money supply must result in inflation . |
| 19 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 21 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 22 | However , teaching was for all levels of junior doctors together . |
| 23 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 24 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 25 | This as far as we know which is reproduced from the original , was for some sort of a fender . |