Example sentences of "[noun] be for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 2 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 3 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 4 | The alternative is for the children to be educated abroad in English-speaking international schools . |
| 5 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 6 | The first requirement is for the terms to be written in grammatically correct English — errors of grammar may disguise or even distort the meaning of a term . |
| 7 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 8 | The aim is for the rates to be adjusted so that , overall , the employer 's national insurance contribution does not rise . |
| 9 | The author is for the purposes of this book broadening the definition to include all the cowboys in and out of the City of London , selling shares , futures , and occasionally other financial instruments . |
| 10 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 11 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 12 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 13 | The singing is flexible and responsorial and all the music is for the words of the Liturgy itself . |
| 14 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 15 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 16 | Altogether , these 63 centres expect to register over 2,400 students and trainees for the general SVQs , with the largest numbers being for the awards in care ( over 900 ) and hospitality ( around 800 ) . |
| 17 | It is often the case that a letter is for the eyes of a particular person and nobody else . |
| 18 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 19 | The largest uptake is for the subjects in the Final section , which are common to the Pre-Associateship Route . |
| 20 | Dual assessments will be most common where the local authority is assessing a child 's special educational needs under the Education Act 1981 or where a child is disabled and the assessment is for the purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or associated legislation . |
| 21 | Your comparison is to Latin America , when the most direct precedent is for the debtors of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 22 | There are a number of solutions , but the most interesting solution is for the cells to ‘ know ’ their position in the line . |