Example sentences of "is [det] [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches ’ . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , Butler showed that there is little justification for taking egoistic hedonism , or even an egoistic psychology which is not hedonistic , as based on obvious fact , and that the initial presumption must be that concern for the welfare of others is what it seems , the direct wish for their welfare . |
| 3 | There is little justification for assuming the uncertain earlier attribution of the Shipman 's Tale to be meaningful and its final attribution to be merely a convenient slot in which Chaucer parked his tale without even bothering to make a few simple revisions to make the tale fit its new narrator . |
| 4 | It is also pointed out that the danger of " hurrying " and teaching " more " is that time for gathering information and reflecting on practice and the implicit and explicit theories that guide it can evaporate easily in the busyness of increasing demands … |
| 5 | The bond which grows up between them is some compensation for giving up mother . |
| 6 | There is some case for doing this , particularly now that Whitehall is laying down a core curriculum for all schools . |
| 7 | By contrast , in actions not brought under Ord. 53 the defendant must take positive steps to apply to the court to have the plaintiff 's case struck out if there is some ground for doing so . |
| 8 | However , with faster hardware likely to be on the market in the near future and the possibility of the emergence of parallel GIS machines , there is some justification for believing that extra effort is both worth while and acceptable . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , this is the one day of the week when there IS some justification for allowing traffic into the Park — so that it can be enjoyed by the aged and infirm whose only means of access is by car . |
| 10 | There is some justification for treating user education in universities , polytechnics and the colleges of further and higher education separately . |
| 11 | There is some justification for treating those who run these enterprises as capitalists if they manifest certain characteristics . |
| 12 | While there is some justification for arguing that industries never mature ( or only over an extremely long time-span ) , there is also every justification for arguing that products often do have life-cycles short enough to make sense of this type of analysis . |
| 13 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 14 | There is some authority for saying that the ‘ sufficient interest ’ test applies to such actions ; but there are also dicta suggesting that a stricter rule should apply to such actions on the ground that leave is not required to bring actions begun by writ or originating summons . |
| 15 | However , there is some reason for thinking that Freud may have had something else in mind , namely , the symbols which occur in dream life , some of which are widespread among different cultures and epochs . |
| 16 | There is some precedent for allowing the extra costs of subsistence when working away from home , by virtue of Statement of Practice SP16/80 , which specifically applies to lorry drivers . |
| 17 | I think there is some room for suggesting that , erm , in certain circumstances , the actual perpetrator of the crime , could make retribution to the victim . |
| 18 | there is some potential for testing consistency of marking — it is a big worry to most of us , when marking a hundred different pieces of coursework , that the hundredth might have been marked to a different standard to the first . |
| 19 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 20 | What is needed is some basis for estimating the functional from a finite number of experimental results . |
| 21 | It is this concern for enhancing or widening the opportunities of children living in inner city areas which underpins Ronald Edmonds ' chapter ( 2.1 ) . |
| 22 | It is this potential for mobilizing worker commitment to change which makes the 1985 agreement a land-mark in Ford 's industrial relations and work organization . |
| 23 | C R E W That 's one , now number two is another word for pushed . |
| 24 | This is another rationale for defining price stability as an annual inflation rate of 1-2% . |
| 25 | We saw in Chapter 6 how Marxists argue that military spending is one solution to under-consumption ; at the same time Marxists would also argue that Keynesian demand management and social welfarism is another instrument for creating higher effective consumer demand , which also serves to create further false consciousness among the working class and defuse threats to the legitimacy of the state . |
| 26 | This is another reason for believing that the best regressions take place under hypnosis . |
| 27 | It 'll only be after I 've m met a few people and photographed them well , that maybe my name will be start to be mentioned around That is another reason for courting the Trade 's Council and any other councillors that come in . |
| 28 | There is another reason for thinking business expertise will be insufficient in itself to transform DHAs into authoritative bodies . |
| 29 | There is another reason for thinking that the Craigearn line is special . |
| 30 | This is another reason for standardising the rudder movement first , but it is not relevant to gliders with T-tails where no rudder blanketing can occur . |