Example sentences of "but it [is] for " in BNC.
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1 | Come here to see me if you will ; mother asks you , and I want you , but it is for you to come or not as you feel best , or as you like . |
2 | Inside there is more marble , — the marbled floor is very good — but it is for its art that the interior is famous . |
3 | But it is for you already , any fool can see you 're in no shape to continue . |
4 | The changes of the 1990s pose an urgent challenge for the whole personnel function in planning for recruitment and retention , pay flexibility and increased employee expectations , but it is for management development specialists , within the wider personnel function , constantly to remind task-driven managers of Metzger 's words , quoted by Glascott , ‘ people breathe life into programmes ’ ( Glascott , 1990 ) . |
5 | Towards the end of his time with us , Peter began to develop a midfield role in the craftier confines of Division Two , but it is for his goalscoring exploits that Palace fans chiefly remember him . |
6 | But it is for the mother to decide whether she has pain relief . |
7 | — But it is for his gift of sympathy and understanding for the teachers who worked with him which far exceeded his obligation that I shall largely remember him . |
8 | I know it seems a little bit i idealistic , do n't know what the word is I want but it is for warning |
9 | The specimen may be of blood or urine , but it is for me to decide which . |
10 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
11 | ‘ Call it a wedding gift , ’ he advised harshly , ‘ but it is for you alone , not a thing to share with your future husband . |
12 | higher than this year , but it is for Derbyshire to decide its level of spending and priorities between services . |
13 | Local education authorities have considerable flexibility to provide additional assistance to small primary schools , through the small school protection factor , but it is for each authority to devise its own scheme and to choose its priorities within that scheme in the light of local needs . |
14 | In England , no such evidence has come forward , but it is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide whether he is convinced by the evidence . |
15 | Not only were there also one or two very old statutes to which resort could be made , but the common law of conspiracy was generally held to preclude collective actions designed to harm employers ' interests : " it is not the denial to work except for more wages than is allowed by statute , but it is for a conspiracy to raise their wages , for which these defendants are indicted " , concluded a famous judgement against some striking tailors of Cambridge in 1721 . |
16 | It is not for teachers to tell them what to believe or value , but it is for them to try to equip pupils in such a way that they can enter into the debate and develop a coherent and perceptive worldview for themselves . |
17 | I do n't know when it 's for , but it is for when , that 's what it 's called , you get a list and it is sort of ante |
18 | Many different types on the market , but when you actually start to look into them , erm , they reveal a few things , you can see by this one it 's a fairly old one , but it is for for demo purposes only , this is one by Polycell , it 's battery operated in a plastic cases and it 's handy because it 's got a torch but when you actually put the alarm on it goes my gadget 's not working really . |
19 | ‘ No , no , well yes , she would like to meet you , but it 's for the medicine , ’ said Endill . |
20 | It 's a glove , but it 's for covering the hand . |
21 | It 's a stable , but it 's for horses . |
22 | Now this last one here is called Living the Prayer and it 's like the other quite a few of the others , erm but it 's for you , it 's not for not for us it 's not to be shared . |
23 | But it 's for the youngs — the youth . ’ |
24 | But it 's for me too — I got such a buzz out of seeing the kids ’ faces at that show . |
25 | We do have a death penalty , but it 's for the vulnerable , the young , the old and disabled . |
26 | ‘ Nobody wants to exterminate them but it 's for their own good . |
27 | ‘ I know it sounds old-hat , but it 's for the children . |
28 | It 's very little , all I 've managed to save , but it 's for you to use until I come back . |
29 | Yes yes right I 'll see what I can do by September I should be able to do a fair bit by then Yeah well I say I 've done the doll , that 's for August that 's for the er Beckley fete but it 's for , Friends of Beckley Church and it 's guess the doll 's birth date which as you said as you said it should have two |
30 | but it 's for playing golf in . |