Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 2 | The square pans are for fish and the round ‘ rapid recovery pans ’ are for chips . |
| 3 | Both the enlarged access facility and the supplementary financing facility are available to members of the IMF only in conjunction with the use of resources in the upper credit tranches ( i.e. they are special arrangements when normal credit lines are insufficient ) and are for countries which are facing serious payments imbalances that are large in relation to their quotas . |
| 4 | The only job vacancies in Angleside are for interviewers in the Social Security office , where the furniture is screwed to the floor in case the clients should try to assault the interviewers with it . |
| 5 | ‘ I know what a worry high interest rates are for families with mortgages and for those involved in farming and small businesses , ’ she said . |
| 6 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 7 | Irrigation pump models are for engines of up to 45 kW . |
| 8 | If married persons sterilized for non-contraceptive reasons are included , the proportion of the subfecund rises to 25 per cent ( most non-contraceptive sterilizations are for conditions which would themselves cause sterility : McFalls and McFalls 1984 ) . |
| 9 | It would be niggling to say that where a writer has used assistants his data cease to be primary , but it would also be foolish to ignore the fact that the more people there are involved in a project , the more opportunities there are for errors to creep in . |
| 10 | Probably are for daddies as well . |
| 11 | Be careful when writing : reports are for others , as an aide-memoire is for ourselves . |
| 12 | This could be expressed in encouraging schoolchildren to think that careers in ‘ science ’ and ‘ maths ’ are for the brightest pupils while ‘ arts ’ and ‘ vocational training ’ are for others . |
| 13 | Both are for non-residents of the UK and the Channel Islands . |
| 14 | ( The prices shown below are for yarns only . ) |
| 15 | The main requirements of the Management Regulations are for employers to : |
| 16 | Jean Parmiter reported that tickets are now available for the Reunion — Please remember they are for Members Only and Teachers are reminded that membership cards may be checked at this and future events . |
| 17 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 18 | Health services exist for the benefit of patients , not doctors ; schools and colleges are for students , not for teachers or administrators . |
| 19 | The site visits are for Friends members only . |
| 20 | The most common nowadays are for reservoirs , but major bridges and tunnels also usually need Private Acts . |
| 21 | For technical reasons the values recorded on the ground are for areas measuring 57 m along the scan lines and 79m between scan lines . |
| 22 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 23 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
| 24 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 25 | It is curious nevertheless how poor the primary sources sometimes are for debates at BAAS meetings : the famous clash between Wilberforce and Huxley in 1860 at Oxford , in the new museum there , has scarcely more contemporary accounts than that between St George and the dragon , so that it is impossible to know exactly what happened . |
| 26 | Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps . |
| 27 | The highest salaries paid to local authority officers involved with the arts are for Directors and Assistant Directors of Museums and Gallery Services . |
| 28 | Mountains are for walking , ATBs are for paths and tracks . |
| 29 | Most books which have been written about mental handicap are for doctors , nurses , parents with mentally handicapped children , social workers ; rarely for the general public . |
| 30 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |