Example sentences of "is [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-preservation , replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly , I ca n't afford a breakdown , this is me for the moment , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 2 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 3 | There is nothing for me to add ’ . |
| 4 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 5 | The term substantial steps is used because prior to that stage it is generally assumed that there is nothing for the offeror to disclose publicly . |
| 6 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 7 | For instance , the reason that to pull someone 's left leg and to kick the large bucket have no normal idiomatic interpretation is that leg and bucket carry no meaning in the idiom , so there is nothing for left and large to carry out their normal modifying functions on ( in general , a modifier needs a semantic constituent to modify ) . |
| 8 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 9 | for example , that if a sporting event ends prematurely because of bad weather , or of attendance falls short of anticipated levels , some or all of the casual labour force can be discharged and workers need not be carried when there is nothing for them to do . |
| 10 | I like to ‘ shoot ’ every Whaddon game and it is nothing for Jock to spend a whole weekend analysing , in minute detail , every little aspect of his instruction manual in the hope he can learn to operate the video machine . |
| 11 | ‘ There is nothing for us to discuss . ’ |
| 12 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 13 | There is nothing for me here , do n't you see ? |
| 14 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 15 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 16 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 17 | Thirty thousand pounds is nothing for someone 's life . |
| 18 | ‘ My plane is nothing for me but a flying machine gun , ’ he said , and he was a fantastic marksman . |
| 19 | It says , the quiz will contain some sixty questions covering general knowledge and not just railway so so that there is , not very good grammar , so that there is nothing for the family to be afraid of . |
| 20 | So there is nothing for a family to be afraid of . |
| 21 | In other words Julie , there is nothing for you to do is all , I mean , you 're giving , you 're giving millions of instructions |
| 22 | there is nothing for them . |
| 23 | We will fly you both from Heathrow or Manchester to Aberdeen , where you will find a complimentary car waiting for you , and which is yours for the entire weekend . |
| 24 | The afternoon is yours for further exploring , until a farewell dinner party during the evening . |
| 25 | She is yours for as long as you care to keep her . |
| 26 | ‘ And of course the house is yours for the duration , my love . |
| 27 | Lady Luck is yours for keeps today . |
| 28 | Raise £2,000 in sponsorship and the trip of a lifetime is yours for free . |
| 29 | And once it has found you , it is yours for life . |
| 30 | You are welcome to serve my meals in my room , there is plenty for me to do alone upstairs . ’ |