Example sentences of "it is for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is For Catching Wild Colts and Vicious Horses on Aney Feild or Common ( For a long distance )
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading .
5 ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own .
6 Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic .
7 We have the report and it is for noting .
8 Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive .
9 The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee .
10 It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’
11 There is not a case , however , for spreading central funding between universities more evenly ; rather it is for judging all UK universities more broadly on the excellence of both their science and their technology bases .
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