Example sentences of "is [noun sg] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is advisable for the precise extent of the centre to be readily identifiable and the tenant should take care to ensure that where there is a right for the landlord to extend or reduce the centre , such extension or reduction does not adversely affect the tenant 's use or occupation of the premises and that there is provision for any specific service charge percentages to be varied accordingly . |
| 2 | There is provision for this in the Anglican Alternative Service Book of course under the heading of The Peace ! |
| 3 | But there is hope for those who do not want children . |
| 4 | The M O D says that idea would n't save much with all the handshakes and pensions and there is support for that view . |
| 5 | There is support for such a pragmatic concept of reference in Strawson 's ( 1950 ) claim that ‘ 'referring ’ is not something an expression does ; it is something that someone can use an expression to do' ; and in Searle 's view that ‘ in the sense in which speakers refer , expressions do not refer any more than they make promises or give orders ’ ( 1979 : 155 ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps some people 's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this . |
| 7 | Page is hero for all time . |
| 8 | For Christians who live closely with God , life is like a festival , and with each new believer brought into reality there is joy for all believers . |
| 9 | Soon he will have his own conscience to live with and that is punishment for any man . ’ |
| 10 | There is a creeping ratchet effect : capacity means something can be done and once it is being done it is expanded or generalised ; that in turn means there is need for more support ; in turn that support needs supporting , so creating more capacity , and the cycle repeats . |
| 11 | But , anyway , I think there is room for that and I think basically what I would propose is forget the tabloids and do an A four newspaper . |
| 12 | Peer review works fairly well , the report points out , when science budgets are growing and there is room for most disciplines to develop at their own pace . |
| 13 | I think the proportion of students following joint honours physical science courses ( physics/ maths , chemistry/physics , etc. ) is about right , but there is room for more students on combined biological/physical science degrees . |
| 14 | Within this compulsory allocation , there is room for some autonomous decision-making by individual schools . |
| 15 | If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult . |
| 16 | ‘ There is room for both systems , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Sewing is relaxation for some , purgatory for others . |
| 18 | Now , regarding the means testing of the pensioners the means testing with pensioners is dynamite for any government ! |
| 19 | How appropriate is video for this stage of a unit ? |
| 20 | Some of the objects on show are clearly and satisfyingly ‘ fake ’ , in the sense that their sole intention is deception for some form of gain . |
| 21 | The experience of the early Christian community in Jerusalem in sharing their worldly goods is evidence for many of the material communism which is implicit in the Great Commandment ‘ Love your neighbour as yourself ’ . |
| 22 | There is evidence for some cereal cultivation between 1700–1100 B.P. , the time of colonisation of the Hebrides by Scots and Picts . |
| 23 | There is evidence for some geological activity on Venus , and though it is unlikely that Plate Tectonics ever got going this conclusion is not yet beyond doubt . |
| 24 | There is evidence for this in , for example , The Castle Diaries ( Castle , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | There is evidence for this both in the slowness of attitude change in response to advertising and in the long duration of memory of successful advertising . |
| 26 | In my view , there is scope for such development . |
| 27 | There certainly is scope for such studies : documentary material survives in town archives in such forms as deeds and rentals , and in some cases it can be supplemented by archaeological work , as twentieth-century redevelopment in town centres has given opportunities to investigate the surviving material remains below . |
| 28 | So I think that there 's , I welcome , you know , the Social Chapter on that basis , but it does clearly say , and prescribe , er something that can only be universally applied , and if there are , there is need , there is need , er there is scope for that , with delegation through particular industries , particular circumstances . |
| 29 | There is scope for more work on this , but already there are tentative pointers to the picture being similar . |
| 30 | The sensible interpretation would be to read the phrase ‘ not within the powers of this Act ’ so as to include any of the traditional heads of ultra vires and there is authority for this position . |