Example sentences of "it be for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be for seeing into people 's minds ? |
| 2 | It 's for calling a servant , but Julia and I never used it because we did n't have any servants . |
| 3 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
| 4 | It 's the title on the , it 's for establishing Europe 's first wildlife teaching hospital which is what we 're building at Haddenham pretty shortly . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
| 6 | It 's for recognising words rather than features or objects , visual . |
| 7 | destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this |
| 8 | It 's , it 's for setting goals and working them out and so on . |
| 9 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
| 10 | th th there 's , basically there 's an ord it has an ordinary editor which is sub right , it 's an ASCII editor that appears in a window and it 's for using , for editing the ASCII files . |
| 11 | It 's for throwing at them as you retreat into the living room . |
| 12 | Something else , therefore , it 's for selling , especially public assets , and they get two pluses in that . |
| 13 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 14 | Oh yes yes it 's it 's for noting yes . |
| 15 | to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking . |
| 16 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 17 | It 's for making products which are now or are potentially viable commercially . |
| 18 | Oh , so it 's so it 's for photographing the star and |
| 19 | It 's for hitting cricket balls with . |
| 20 | It 's a glove , but it 's for covering the hand . |
| 21 | It 's for putting the cream on is n't it ? |
| 22 | It 's for putting the cream on the cake is n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 24 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 25 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
| 26 | Aye it 's for carding wool . |
| 27 | but it 's for playing golf in . |
| 28 | It is For Catching Wild Colts and Vicious Horses on Aney Feild or Common ( For a long distance ) |
| 29 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 30 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |