Example sentences of "what [pron] is for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 WHAT THERE IS FOR CLASSROOM USE
2 In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ?
3 The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states .
4 It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting .
5 If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent .
6 All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive .
7 We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ .
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