Example sentences of "is [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing the quality of the service can be improved by ensuring that the objectives for individual placements are more closely related to the needs of the school and that there is support for implementing the outcomes of the experience . |
| 2 | Which is shorthand for saying that you do n't have to cheat very much . |
| 3 | The average cost is £15 for travelling expenses plus £5 for the straw of semen . |
| 4 | Hence there is room for competing middle-range theories , and not merely because not enough empirical testing has been done . |
| 5 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 6 | Although the case is 10U the working units occupy only 7U of rack space , so there is room for expanding the system should the need arise . |
| 7 | In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something . |
| 8 | Although there is currently no formal relationship between ITSAG and the ITAB joint committee structure , the Group will be considering in the coming months whether there is scope for creating a close link . |
| 9 | In helping to negotiate a contract for a family member on admission there is scope for clarifying details of daily life , and helping the family and the old person work through their feelings about any restrictions . |
| 10 | There is scope for splitting the title into two series , reflecting these objectives . |
| 11 | And that means that there is scope for improving the position just by doing it right . ’ |
| 12 | Just as it has been possible to insert beneficial genes into crop plants , there is scope for eliminating , replacing or masking certain genes which have a deleterious effect on crop production . |
| 13 | But , in international relations as in economics , there is scope for applying scientific method to the beliefs and desires of individuals . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is also clear that there is scope for increasing the agricultural production of the crofts . |
| 15 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 16 | I have asked the ABI to consider whether there is scope for offering discounts to car owners who fit effective security devices after initial sale . |
| 17 | Thus we stated that the initial maintenance dose is ‘ usually … about 80 mg three times a day ’ ; this is so , and there is leeway for altering dosages in patients of low body weight . |
| 18 | F. Austin ( Leyton ) Ltd v East [ 1961 ] Crim LR 119 is authority for saying that a latent defect amounting to a dangerous condition is not a defence but would be good mitigation . |
| 19 | There is authority for saying that the courts ( in practice usually the magistrates ) can and should intervene at both of these potential control points . |
| 20 | What the approach bequeathed is procedures for surveying large numbers of people at minimum cost , and a series of guides for eliciting " factual " information from respondents in an interview . |
| 21 | These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing . |
| 22 | He is a member of Langbaurgh district council and is spokesman for housing and highways . |
| 23 | Our aristocracy is handsomer ( more hideous according to Chinese or Negro ) than the middle classes , from [ having the ] pick of the women ; but oh , what a shame is primogeniture for destroying Natural Selection ! |
| 24 | Now , he wrote , seeing that during the ‘ critical years of adolescence ’ not more than one out of every three elementary school-leavers received any kind of educational care , there ‘ is reason for thinking that once more the national minimum should be raised ’ . |
| 25 | Chris Welch has written ‘ The sight of cropped heads and the sound of heavy boots entering the midnight Wimpy bar or dance hall is cause for sinking feelings in the pit of the stomach . ’ |
| 26 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |