Example sentences of "of [noun pl] be for " in BNC.
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1 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |
2 | The great majority of requests were for ‘ ordinary ’ — that is , neither early nor rare — printed books and serials from the stack areas of the Main Building . |
3 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
4 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
5 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
6 | However , this approach towards electronics is not without its critics ( Moore and Booth , 1986 ) : few jobs have been created for the long-term unemployed ; a relatively small proportion of posts are for managerial and technical positions ; and the indigenous sector remains small , as do total exports and research and development capacities . |
7 | Not all of these charges may be taken as evidence of ‘ litigiousness ’ , for one-quarter to one-third of prosecutions were for regulatory offences , such as gambling and tax evasion , which were normally prosecuted by the police or other government agencies . |
8 | All that is needed to disrupt this state of affairs is for a ‘ seed ’ to be planted . |
9 | For example , Datir ( 1978 : 212 ) found that , in the state of Maharastra , over two-thirds of all admissions of convicts to prisons were of people serving one month or less ; and a third of admissions were for ticketless travel on the railway , usually through inability to pay fines . |
10 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
11 | The resulting set of equations is For finite y , the above system has the steady-state solution Examination of this solution reveals that it is stable if y exceeds a certain minimum value , Y , sufficient to quench the spontaneous lasing . |
12 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
13 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
14 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |
15 | The analysis showed that 40.9 per cent of claims were for hepatitis B. |
16 | The usual sequence of events is for the otter to dive and then surface clutching both a mollusc and a rock . |
17 | The usual order of events is for the employer to open the proceedings by making a short opening address . |
18 | of enrolments are for vocational courses and 40 per cent . |