Example sentences of "it [be] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway 's preoccupation is therefore not how to meet its own energy demand , nor will it be for many years , but how best to exploit its hydrocarbon wealth . |
| 2 | Is that on existing beds or will it be for new beds only ? |
| 3 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 4 | And that was mainly for dog dirt but now it 's for other hazards int it ? |
| 5 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
| 6 | I say it 's for young fellows like yourself and myself , ’ Fonsie said . |
| 7 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 8 | Well I think Simon for doing it is a really excellent way of doing it , it states the source of items , suggestions or quiffs , and makes a proposal erm , which we can debate agreed , and then it 's for clear instructions to what needs to be changed on the procedure . |
| 9 | Well it 's for younger children I suppose , like Kirsty , to learn , to show them how to hold a pencil tidy . |
| 10 | It 's for 15 weeks , so it is worth it I suppose . |
| 11 | It 's for mad dogs and Englishmen . |
| 12 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 13 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 14 | I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to . |
| 15 | It 's for these troops that the men and women of RAF Lyneham 's AeroMedical Evacuation Squadron are preparing to fly out and offer essential support . |
| 16 | These results show how common it is for small mammals to become trapped in pitfalls , and although there is some selection in species trapped , depending on local circumstances , the degree of bias is less than might be expected . |
| 17 | It is for similar reasons that I have included the notes from a lecture by Dr. S.P. Dey — the feeling of certainty that LM potencies are an indispensable part of the homœopath 's armoury comes from the authority of his many years in practice . |
| 18 | A comparison of such different ballets as Enigma Variations , Fancy Free and The Rake 's Progress emphasises how important it is for young choreographers to remember that ballet is an art of the general as well as of the particular . |
| 19 | It is for longer-term forecasts that accuracy becomes harder to achieve . |
| 20 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 21 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 22 | It is for such customers that we have listed the properties of Matroc 's more widely used materials . |
| 23 | It is for such customers that we have listed the properties of Matroc 's more widely used materials . |
| 24 | It is for such customers that we have listed the properties of Matroc 's more widely used materials . |
| 25 | If the superpowers are still perceived as dominant , it is for other reasons . |
| 26 | Each one should be cleaned , inside and out — it is just as effective for those hard-to-reach molars as it is for front teeth . |
| 27 | It is for individual members and their firms to decide what subject matter is useful and relevant to their needs . |
| 28 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 29 | I shall be dealing more fully with the use of the library in the next chapter , but I can not stress too strongly how important it is for all researchers to be knowledgeable about bibliographical sources and , sadly , how few social science undergraduates are actually taught the necessary skills . |
| 30 | In the first place , if education is for all , it is for all conditions and all abilities . |